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December 20, 2012 09:26 pm PST
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Book digitization: 1971-present
The Library of Congress's Leslie Johnson takes a stroll down memory lane, recounting the history of book digitization: Text digitization in the cultural heritage sector started in earnest in 1971, when the first Project Gutenberg text the United States Declaration of Independence was keyed into a file on a mainframe at the University [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Q5qVFbpZ4pw/book-digitization-1971-presen.html
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