One is that digitisation is at last producing significant economies of scale across national borders.
Partly, this reflects the falling cost of distribution, as digitisation has cut annual operating costs.
Through the museum's digitisation process the whole collection will soon be accessible to the public on the internet.
The Scottish Council on Archives will offer training across the archives sector, and will involve skills such as digital preservation and digitisation.
And the digitisation of billions of human records and ubiquitous web access has made researching family trees a lot easier and more accessible.
In Japan's vast electronics sector, for example, digitisation has forced business leaders to think long and hard about China's changing role.
The programme also raises funds and provides expertise to support preservation and digitisation projects in developing countries and for archives at risk.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Memory of the World
Digitisation gives us the freedom to not only do this quickly and remotely, but also enhances the quality and depth of the original.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
The first big impact of widespread digitisation is likely to be a transformation of the cost base of those banks that embrace it.
In health care, the digitisation of records would make it much easier to spot and monitor health trends and evaluate the effectiveness of different treatments.
Digitisation of the records cost almost 4m euros and was carried out by the National Archives in partnership with Library and Archives Canada over the past five years.
This illustrates one effect of the digitisation of information.
Google will cover all digitisation costs.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
One issue that Mr de la Mora was unable to address was the question of why, if Google is so committed to ensuring openness and diversity, it did not support the attempt by other digitisation projects to benefit from the settlement.
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