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Still other digital libraries are formed of digitizing paintings, films and music. Work even exists in 3D reconstructive digitization that permits a digital deconstruction, storage, transmission, and reconstruction of solid object." The British Library is a pioneer in Europe for research relating to digital libraries.
The first browser, Mosaic, was released in November 1993. Project Gutenberg gradually got into its stride, with the digitization of one book per month in 1991, two books per month in 1992, four books per month in 1993 and eight books per month in 1994. In January 1994, Project Gutenberg celebrated its 100th book by releasing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
Journalists can be easily phoned on weekends to do extra work without extra pay." While it speeds up the production process, the automation of working methods, beginning with digitization, leads to a decrease in human intervention and consequently an increase in unemployment.
Digitization in text format means a book can be copied, indexed, searched, analyzed and compared with other books. It also makes a smaller and more easily sendable computer file, unlike with scanning each page, which produces a bulky "photo" file. Hart describes himself as a workaholic who is devoting his entire life to the project, which he sees as the start of a new Industrial Revolution.
Taking Beowulf out of its display case for study not only raises conservation issues, it also makes it unavailable for the many visitors who come to the Library expecting to see this most fundamental of literary treasures on display. Digitization of the whole manuscript offered a solution to these problems, as well as providing new opportunities for insight.
Some volunteers themselves prefer to type short texts, or works they particularly like. But most books are scanned, "OCRized" and proofread. Digitization in "text format" means a book can be copied, indexed, searched, analyzed and compared with other books.
2001/08: Creation of Project Gutenberg of Australia. 2001: Digitization of 104 books per month. 2001: Distributed Proofreaders became the main source of Project Gutenberg books. 2002: Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site. 2002: Digitization of 203 books per month. 2003/08: "Best of Gutenberg" CD with 600 books.
In book publishing, digitization has speeded up the editorial process, which used to be sequential, by allowing the copy editor, the art editor and the layout staff to work at the same time on the same book. Employers try to convince us that the use of new information and communication technologies will create new jobs, whereas unions are sure of the contrary.
Digitization is done by scanning the book page after page to get "image" files. There is an average of 10 mistakes per page for a good OCR package, and many more mistakes if the quality of the scanner and the OCR package is not great. The book is proofread twice on the computer screen by two different people, who make any corrections necessary.
Ten years later, he confirms that his answer would still be the same. Project Gutenberg was born. 1974-88: He keyed in parts of the Bible and several works of Shakespeare. 1991: Digitization of one book per month. 1992: Digitization of two books per month. 1993: Digitization of four books per month.
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