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[ih] Fwd: Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts
- Subject: [ih] Fwd: Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts
- From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie)
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:14:49 -0500
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but not before many here were born :)
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Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing
Texts<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/before-you-were-born-we-were-digitizing-texts/>
12/19/2012 01:48 PM EST
We are all pretty familiar with the process of scanning texts to produce
page images and converting them using optical character recognition to
full-text indexing and searching. But electronic texts have a far
older-pedigree. Text digitization in the cultural heritage sector started
in earnest in 1971, when the first Project Gutenberg text ? the United [...]
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