News tagged with digitisation

From Grain to Pixel

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 ...

Technology / Other

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




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Star images helping to save Vatican books

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky.

Technology / Other

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pregnancy is a drag for bottlenose dolphins

Lumbering around during the final weeks before delivery is tough for any pregnant mum. Most females adjust their movements to compensate for the extreme physical changes that accompany the later stages of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Johnny Rotten's graffiti: The new heritage?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists typically record and analyse the traces of past human activities. The caves of Lascaux in southern France are celebrated as a place where early humans made their marks on cave ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Powerful words

Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The eyes have it: Computer-inspired creativity

Constraints on creativity imposed by computer-aided design (CAD) tools are being overcome, thanks to a novel system that incorporates eye-tracking technology.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Book fair to tackle challenges of digital age storytelling

Authors once just had to deal with a publisher but are now being forced to embrace the digital age and negotiate the rights to their works for TV, films and ebooks.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

French publisher settles with Google

A French publisher who had battled in court to stop Google from publishing books online without permission said on Thursday it had come to terms and entered a partnership with the US-based Internet giant.

Technology / Business

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unravelling the mysteries of medieval Gough Map

The secrets embedded in one of the earliest maps to show Britain in its geographically recognised form have been uncovered, as researchers launch the newly digitised Gough Map.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Historic Arabic medical manuscripts go online

Researchers may now search and browse the Wellcome Library’s Arabic manuscripts using groundbreaking functionalities in a new online resource that brings together rich descriptive information and exceptionally detailed ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

80 percent of world climate data are not computerized

In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. This is the conclusion ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3


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