News tagged with digitisation


From Grain to Pixel

Technology / Other

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Not only video shops are struggling with the digitisation of films. Digitisation is also giving rise to problems in a completely different area. Film archives and laboratories have built up their work around the analogue ...





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Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with web browsers

Fury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project

Technology / Internet

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

"Garbage" and "hysterical propaganda" was one angry reaction at the world's biggest book fair this year when Google, the world's biggest Internet search service, defended plans to turn millions of books into ...


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Google removes European titles from digital books deal

Technology / Internet

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Internet giant Google will remove all books still on sale in Europe from a US online market offering millions of titles that are out of print in the United States, the company said Monday.


Google could be 'gagged' by new laws: expert

Technology / Internet

created Nov 07, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Internet search engines such as Google could be crippled by changes to copyright law in Australia that look set to be implemented by the Federal Government, a Copyright expert from The Australian National University argues.


New Shakespeare Archive launched

New Shakespeare Archive launched

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet.


Founding document of mathematics published in digital form for the first time

Founding document of mathematics published in digital form for the first time

Other Sciences /

created Oct 07, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid’s Elements, probably the most influential work in the history of mathematics, has been published in digital form for the first time thanks to a collaboration betwee ...


Digital preservation: Alliance set to tackle science's new frontier

Technology / Other

created Nov 26, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new digital divide, or rather chasm, is opening up in the scientific enterprise, and something urgently needs to be done to prevent data from being lost into oblivion At the Second International Conference on Permanent ...


Ancient human fossils find modern virtual home

Ancient human fossils find modern virtual home

Technology / Software

created Jun 06, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

First discovered 150 years ago, Neanderthals have been studied more widely than any other form of human. Thanks to a new interactive inventory and online catalogue developed in Europe, scientists worldwide ...


EUREKA: Digital AM radio

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created Jun 21, 2004 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Combining the quality of disturbance-free digital radio with the range and global popularity of AM Despite the technical advances of digital FM radio, offering increased choice and crystal clear, disturbance-free radio re ...


An added dimension for virtual museums

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created Dec 05, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Culture vultures enjoy exploring museum collections online. New 3D technology promises to make their experience richer still. With a mouse click, people can manipulate valuable objects as if they were in their own hands. ...



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