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Mass digitization is a term used to describe "large-scale digitization projects of varying scopes." Such projects include efforts to digitize physical books, on a mass scale, to make knowledge openly and publicly accessible and are made possible by selecting cultural objects, prepping them, scanning them, and constructing necessary digital infrastructures including digital libraries. These projects are often piloted by cultural institutions and private bodies, however, individuals may attempt to conduct a mass digitization effort as well. Mass digitization efforts occur quite often; millions of files (books, photos, color swatches, etc.) are uploaded to large-scale public or private online archives every single day. This practice of taking the physical to the digital on a mass realm changes the way we interact with knowledge. The history of mass digitization can be traced as early as the mid-1800s with the advent of microfilm, and technical infrastructures such as the internet, data farms, and computer data storage make these efforts technologically possible. This seemingly simple process of digitization of physical knowledge, or even products, has vast implications that can be explored.
Massdigitization is a term used to describe "large-scale digitization projects of varying scopes." Such projects include efforts to digitize physical...
institutional digitization projects designed to improve access and the rapid growth of the digital preservation field. Sometimes digitization and digital...
Librarians. The UC Libraries are digitizing millions of books from their collections through participation in massdigitization projects with Google, the Internet...
Book scanning or book digitization (also: magazine scanning or magazine digitization) is the process of converting physical books and magazines into digital...
an increase in the mass availability of books and other text. Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitization of the United States...
produce text files of the newspaper content. Newspaper digitization is a special case of digitization in general. Newspapers preserve a rich record of the...
majority of the 78 rpm recordings being digitized have never been published in other media before. The digitization of the archive is done by audio engineer...
libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries....
specific taxa. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts, BHL's portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of...
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe...
The Michigan Digitization Project is a project in partnership with Google Books to digitize the entire print collection of the University of Michigan Library...
archive.org. Helft, Miguel (22 March 2011). "Judge Rejects Google's Deal to Digitize Books". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2018. "Open Book Alliance"...
June 2015, another report was released focusing on orphan works and massdigitization. Beginning in May 2006, various legislative bills have been introduced...
library takes a physical copy of a legally acquired item and digitizes it. After digitization, DRM is applied to the digital version, and the physical item...
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Pilot Project. The pilot project began in 2002 to test the feasibility of digitizing cylinder recordings on a large...
Workbench'." The site has been described as "a model for collaborative digitization projects and serves to inform cultural heritage institutions building...
adequately address the problem it’s trying to fix," namely enabling massdigitization efforts. On 29 October 2014, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)...
books with expired copyright, are scanned by volunteers, or sourced from digitization projects and the images are run through optical character recognition...
of Congress Copyright Office Docket No. 2012–12 Orphan Works and MassDigitization Federal Register, Vol. 77, No. 204. Monday, 22 October 2012. Notices...
The Art Institute of Chicago et. al, Comments on Orphan Works and MassDigitization (4 February 2013) Sarah E. Thomas, Response by the Cornell University...
series have been digitised. The number of digitized books continues to grow, especially after massdigitization of modern prints in context of the National...
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an international digital infrastructure and community. It is a joint undertaking of Holocaust...
working with a number of libraries, including the British Library, to digitize books and make them searchable, and in the case of out-of-copyright books...
digital objects) is an open-source software suite intended to support massdigitization projects for cultural heritage institutions. The software implements...
newspapers written and published by Jews. The database enables, through digitization, virtual access to the Hebrew press in most of its years of existence...
The Million Book Project (or the Universal Library) was a book digitization project led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University...
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