Digitise

There is also an ongoing project to "digitise" the collection online. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 2004, Google decided that it would digitise all the books currently held in a series of major libraries with the aim of making their contents globally available to anyone with a web browser. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Schleicher's conclusion is: "The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also easiest to digitise, automate and outsource." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The library is one year into its plan to digitise 40m news pages from its vast 750m collection, housed in Colindale, north London. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Under the settlement, Google would continue to digitise books and sell access online and the company would pay $125m £76.9m in royalties every year to the copyright owners of the books being scanned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Soon, the Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group, will begin a project to help the archives staff digitise the stacks of dusty documents filling the stifling hot tent. ❋ Maggie Fick (2010)

The Google Book Settlement sets out the way in which Google acquires and uses the rights to digitise books. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded almost £750,000 to the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool to digitise and edit the Gascon Rolls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

More importantly, it does highlight that the current situation - where we're expected to throw open the scanners and digitise our little hearts out to provide access yet simultaneously provide only just enough access that we don't impact on the commercial arms of a museum selling licences or higher res versions - probably isn't tenable. ❋ Mia (2009)

The archives were awarded a major grant from the Wellcome Trust to digitise many of the journals, and expand the catalogue so that from today they can also be searched online by the names of the crew or passengers, or even the medical conditions treated. ❋ Maev Kennedy (2010)

GBP2m will be allocated from the Assembly Government's Strategic Capital Investment Fund specifically to digitise 2 million pages of newspapers and magazines relating to Wales. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the publication of volumes 6, 8, 9 and 12, we reach the culmination of our three-year partnership with English Heritage to digitise this essential source for London history ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps Wikimedia could do what Wikipedia did last year and have a large campaign to raise money for organisations to digitise and make available some of their content by way of return? ❋ Mia (2009)

Google began working with several libraries in 2004 to scan and digitise books and other writings in their collections, and has said it has completed 10% of the effort. ❋ Unknown (2011)

British Library to digitise old newspapers and put them online ❋ Unknown (2011)

He also started Project Gutenberg, a monster plan to digitise the world's literature. ❋ Benedicte Page (2010)

The main objectives are to transcribe and digitise the ‘1641 Depositions’, and to create a comprehensive electronic resource. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Google insists that it will not back down on plan to digitise and sell books online ❋ Unknown (2011)

Though it depends where you draw the lines about the end of collections - in my imagination they're like that warehouse scene at the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc and we won't run out of things to properly digitise any time soon. ❋ Mia (2009)