The ambitious archive project embarked upon in the UK that aimed to preserve a digital copy of all websites, tweets, Facebook entries, ebooks, newspapers along with other cultural and intellectual works pertaining to the country is now ready to be harvested. Ironically, such a huge digital cache of information can only be accessed from a few select terminals located at … [Read more...] about British Digital Archive Now Available Only at the Library – No Web Access
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Whitman Manuscript Now Digitized
According to the University of Chicago Library News, the original manuscript of Walt Whitman's The Bible as Poetry has been digitized, along with related pieces of Whitmaniana, and is now online. The manuscript includes a letter sent from Whitman to his publishers and Whitman's edits of his own work. The complete essay was published in The Critic in 1883. … [Read more...] about Whitman Manuscript Now Digitized
Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad
The University of Michigan's most famous papyrus is now available to users on the iPhone or iPad. High-resolution images of the third-century codex, which is the oldest known copy of the Letters of St. Paul, can be flipped through like the pages of a book. The app includes a translation from Greek to English, either word-by-word or by the page, along with annotations which … [Read more...] about Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad
Cambridge University Library Releases Digital Version of Important Religious Manuscripts
Last year, Cambridge University released digital versions of Isaac Newton's manuscripts and notebooks. The university also launched a new website which showed a digital version of a 2,000 year-old copy of the Ten Commandments and one of the oldest copies of the New Testament. Cambridge is now continuing this program with the release of digital copies of more … [Read more...] about Cambridge University Library Releases Digital Version of Important Religious Manuscripts
Confucius’ Family Tree Put into e-Book Format
Chinadaily is reporting  that there are 83 generations of Confucius' offspring, comprising over 2 million people.  The current family tree is 43,000 pages long and takes up 80 books.  Thanks to digitization, this unwieldy collection is now manageable. The Newspaper said: "The digital version has embedded search bars, diagrams, and analytical functions that can swiftly sort … [Read more...] about Confucius’ Family Tree Put into e-Book Format