Digitizing 80 million documents to help unearth atrocities
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Technologies say Guatemalan police records contain invaluable evidence about human-rights atrocities committed during the country's 36-year civil war that killed 200,000 people.
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The quest for local information has increased during the past decades. This involves research in documents and publications in archives and libraries.
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Trying to authenticate documents or uncover forgeries is an increasingly technical pursuit.
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Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.
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An intelligent system that can recognise the content in photos and videos is being developed by researchers.
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The search engine will team up with five famous libraries to digitize their collections.
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The world's biggest library, the US Library of Congress, has teamed up with UNESCO and libraries from around the globe in an ambitious project to digitize priceless cultural material and make it available on the Internet.
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The British Library and the National Library of New Zealand develop new way to archive digital material.
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The libraries of five of the world&#39;s most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google. Scanned pages from books in the public domain will then be made available for search and reading online.
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By exploiting the physics of how light reflects off of pits in a plastic surface, researchers have come up with a method for storing 1,000 gigabytes of data on a DVD-size disk.
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NASA is joining forces with the Internet Archive to digitize its vast collection of space photos, film, video and images. The effort is expected to take five years.
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Blog: Interest in digital documents continues with a New York state bill proposing to study preservation of electronic documents.
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A new cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech
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The Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi plans to digitize its collection of books and manuscripts, some of them dating to the 16th century, to make them more accessible to researchers.
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On the path to a much dreamed of world of Internet access to most of the mankind&#39;s written record, the Google project isn&#39;t the first to attempt to digitize books.
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Sifting through millions of documents to locate a valuable few is tedious enough, but what happens when those files are scattered across different repositories?
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.