British Library Digitizes More Historical Manuscripts After the successful digital makeover to the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library… Sovan Mandal24 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Can Digitization Go Too Far? A massive digitization project involving the cooperation of two governments and the… Mercy Pilkington11 February 2014One comment2 minute read
Norway’s Answer to eBook Lending: Free Books As US libraries and subscription models struggle with publishers and rights holders… Mercy Pilkington16 January 2014One comment2 minute read
The Battle is Not Over for Google’s Digitization Project Eight years of legal battles to halt Google’s digitization project have not… Mercy Pilkington2 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Digitization of 550-Year-Old Bible Sparks Conversation About Publishing Sometimes, the real news on the internet happens in the comments’ section,… Mercy Pilkington15 December 20133 comments2 minute read
Singapore Digitizing 50 Years of Tamil Literature Singapore has initiated the Tamil Digital Heritage Project to digitize all works… Sovan Mandal16 October 2013No comments1 minute read
How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You? A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it… Mercy Pilkington15 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Vook Partners with Diversion Books to Digitize Original Titles, Backlists eBook creation platform Vook, who was recently honored with two innovation awards… Mercy Pilkington23 January 2013One comment1 minute read
Print-to-Digital Membership from 1DollarScan 1DollarScan, a cost-effective digital scanning service that recently announced its integration with… Mercy Pilkington9 January 2013One comment2 minute read
Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad The University of Michigan’s most famous papyrus is now available to users… 7 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Internet Archive Raises $1 Million in 2012 The Internet Archive is one of the most important, if not the… 1 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Database of Italian Catholic Church’s Art Goes Online The website contains 3.5 million objects and is the result of… 25 December 2012No comments1 minute read
Over 1 Million Historical News Agency Photos Digitized and Added to Europeana Participating are the news agencies ANSA from Italy, belga from Belgium, dpa… 24 December 2012No comments1 minute read
Hans Christian Andersen’s Lost First Story Now on the Internet – The Tallow Candle A historian in Denmark has found a previously unknown fairy tale by… 15 December 2012No comments1 minute read
Cambridge University Library Releases Digital Version of Important Religious Manuscripts Last year, Cambridge University released digital versions of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and… 13 December 2012No comments1 minute read
First Public Beta Version of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Is Launched Along with the rise of ebooks, we have been seeing a huge… 29 November 2012No comments2 minute read
Build a Google Book Scanner Google wants more and more people to scan and digitize books. According… 19 November 20122 comments1 minute read
Confucius’ Family Tree Put into e-Book Format Chinadaily is reporting that there are 83 generations of Confucius’ offspring, comprising… 15 November 2012One comment1 minute read
