__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 29 March 2007 07:21 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain
>>| documents relating to America's history are stored and slowly
>>| decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize
>>| these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish
>>| the results online in multiple formats.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/1157212
>>
>> Scanning work. Open formats. Free public access. What happened to the
>> "Linux can't do OCR" myth? Google has contributed its excellent OCR
>> libraries to the Open Source community and I think it made it into Kooka
>> and other software.
>>
>
> This is excellent, and is very much the right approach. I remain
> paranoid that we have huge archives littered around the planet that are
> not, in any way at all, backed up. This is a great start.
What's worse are archives to which to key (intepreters) is some secret code
which may or may not reside on some retired programmer's PC. That code may
also depend on other closed source code, without which there's no route to
interpretation. And then.... then there's DRM.
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