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11/07/2013
Internet Archive's San Francisco Scanning Center destroyed by a fire. Luckily most of the hard copies were offsite, and of the physical items in the Center, half had been digitized. But still, what a loss. It's something all museums, libraries, and archives must deal with-- the fear of fire destroying one-of-a-kind materials. http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/
Scanning Center Fire — Please Help Rebuild | Internet Archive Blogs This morning at about 3:30 a.m. a fire started at the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center. The good news is that no one was hurt and no digital data was lost. Our main building was not affected except for damage to one electrical run. This power issue caused us to lose power to some…
What an interesting story!
Ninestars and State and University Library, Denmark sign historic digitisation deal to digitise 32 million historical newspaper pages in 2014-2016, in one of the largest digitisation initiatives in Europe
BANGALORE, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013: Ninestars Information Technologies Ltd., a leading digital content solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected by The State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark for the digitisation of 32 million Danish newspaper pages. The digitisation project, one of the largest of its kind in the industry, has come about partly on the basis of a special appropriation under the Danish Budget Law, and it has a total grant of DKK 23 million.
More at this link: http://ninestars.in/press-release.html
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