Tag archive: archive

It all began with an archive of photos. They’d been taken by missionaries since the 1930s of the Warumungu aborigine community in the Northern Territory of Australia, according to the BBC.   When Dr. Kimberley Christian, an assistant professor at WSU, digitized the archive and took it to the community for them to view as a slideshow, she noticed something strange: depending on the image, certain people would turn away.   This… Read More

Google and the U.S. National Archive and Records Administration today announced a pilot program to put film holdings of the National Archive online for free. The non-exclusive arrangement will make the video available both from Google's and Nara's Web sites, and will provide students, researchers, and the general public access to historic movies, documentaries, and other films from anywhere in the world. “This is an… Read More

HP said the digital archive would total more than 4,000 issues from 1923 to the present and be available in May. HP will scan every page of every issue of the magazine published by Time Warner Inc., optimize the material and store it using HP technology. Read the whole article at Reuters Technology.