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‘Digitizing the British Library’

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The February 2008 issue of PC Pro reports on the British Library’s plan to digitize 100,000 books published in the nineteenth century – 25,000,000 pages.
The digitizing partner chosen is Microsoft, with the actual work being done by a German firm, Content Conversion Specialists; the library ‘retains the rights to all the data being collected’ but [...]