He led the development of the Open Library, a projectof the Internet Archive that seeks to gather information about every book ever published in one place.
The Newton archive is part of Cambridge's Digital Library project that will eventually showcase other important scientific papers, including the works of Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin and Ernest Rutherford.
Paul Gerhardt, project director of the Creative Archive Licence Group, added the big news stories of the last three decades were "the punctuation marks in the stories of our lives".
To add another layer of complexity, many tweets contain shortened URLs, and the Library of Congress is in discussions with many of these providers as well as with the Internet Archive and its 301works project to help resolve and map the links.
Even though the paper had a massive collection of photos that are priceless artifacts of Baltimore history, Smith found that digitizing the visual media in the archive was actually not included in the project.