An article published in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education offers a tantalizing bit of insight into one approach Google is considering for cleaning up and enhancing Google Books data and metadata.  They are reportedly offering substantial grants and soliciting proposals from select humanities scholars for projects such as:  “Developing systems for crowd-sourced corrections to book data and metadata.” It will be interesting to see how humanities scholars respond to that particular suggestion; seems like it might be of more interest to librarians/catalogers than to the scholars themselves. I know that I’d love to work with Google on developing this type of system.  I’m certainly curious to see what they come up with, if anything.