Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
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| 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.
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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.
Related:
Publish And Perish
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| Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
| Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
| "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
| look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
| If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
| case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
| Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
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| "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
| become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
| Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
| way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
| "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
| photos," Rose said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
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