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The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250, 000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
Google would also be given the right to digitise orphan works, titles where the authors cannot be found.
This partnership demonstrates the Library's further commitment to working with the private sector to digitise parts of its collections.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
The Shape Match and Formula Match features help correct and digitise geometric shapes and solve numeric formulas hand-written with the S Pen.
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The idea is to offer consumers a chance to digitise their actions and play them back as 3D graphics to help perfect their skills.
Plessey makes analogue chips, which digitise and process signals such as sound and light, rather than the digital sort that Intel makes for computers.
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The grant will also allow the centre to give access to the wider collection and digitise the artefacts as well as refreshing the exhibition and interpretation to create an interactive learning experience.
Recently, the Library announced a partnership with brightsolid to digitise up to 40 million pages of its newspaper collections and previously the Library partnered with Microsoft to digitise 65, 000 19th century books, some of which are now available as an App on Apple's iPad.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
This project will digitise a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870, the period that saw the French and Industrial Revolutions, The Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War, the invention of rail travel and of the telegraph, the beginning of UK income tax, and the end of slavery.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
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