Archive for the 'Digital Libraries' Category
Readers Overwhelm Europe’s New Digital Library
November 20th, 2008PC Magazine - “Europe’s heritage went digital Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony just a mouse click away.”
Library to digitise Middle English manuscripts
September 22nd, 2008Crain’s Manchester Business - “The University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library is to digitise its internationally renowned collection of more than 40 Middle English manuscripts, making some of the world’s greatest medieval literary riches available on the internet”
CAPTCHAs work—for digitizing old, damaged texts, manuscripts
August 14th, 2008Artstechnica - “[T]he works that are most in need of preservation are likely to already be damaged or distorted, making the use of automated scanning and text processing less likely to succeed. Researchers are now reporting on a successful way to identify the words that computers can’t handle: turn them into CAPTCHAs, and get people [...]
The Really Modern Library
October 8th, 2007Ben Vershblow - “This is a request for comments. We’re in the very early stages of devising, in partnership with Peter Brantley and the Digital Library Federation, what could become a major initiative around the question of mass digitization. It’s called “The Really Modern Library.”
In the Age of Digital Libraries
August 18th, 2007Welcome to the Future - “After the last book was sealed into a storage vacuum, the last librarians on earth were given the honorable task of guarding mankind’s most delicate treasures. Thankfully we of the future had been training our librarians in combat techniques as cataloging books became much more difficult.”
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