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- verb UK Alternative spelling of
digitize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
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Examples
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There is also an ongoing project to "digitise" the collection online.
Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive' 2010
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In 2004, Google decided that it would digitise all the books currently held in a series of major libraries with the aim of making their contents globally available to anyone with a web browser.
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Soon, the Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group, will begin a project to help the archives staff digitise the stacks of dusty documents filling the stifling hot tent.
Sudan: problem of preserving the past Maggie Fick 2010
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He also started Project Gutenberg, a monster plan to digitise the world's literature.
Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout Benedicte Page 2010
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Perhaps Wikimedia could do what Wikipedia did last year and have a large campaign to raise money for organisations to digitise and make available some of their content by way of return?
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British Library to digitise old newspapers and put them online
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The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded almost £750,000 to the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool to digitise and edit the Gascon Rolls.
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More importantly, it does highlight that the current situation - where we're expected to throw open the scanners and digitise our little hearts out to provide access yet simultaneously provide only just enough access that we don't impact on the commercial arms of a museum selling licences or higher res versions - probably isn't tenable.
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Google insists that it will not back down on plan to digitise and sell books online
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Though it depends where you draw the lines about the end of collections - in my imagination they're like that warehouse scene at the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc and we won't run out of things to properly digitise any time soon.
Museum pecha kucha night Mia 2009
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