News tagged with libraries archives

New Shakespeare Archive launched

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

World Digital Library to launch at UNESCO

The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts

Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0