Google announces $10 billion ‘digitization’ fund for India

July 13, 2020 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. tech giant Google is investing in a $10 billion fund to help accelerate India’s transition to a digital economy in the next five to seven years.

IU completes digitization of 160K preserved plant specimens

April 15, 2019 GMT

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University has wrapped up a 5-year project that digitized its collection of more than 160,000 preserved plant specimens.

Team to offer suggestions on Lincoln papers’ digitization

March 20, 2017 GMT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A review team of experts will offer suggestions about the digitization of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project.

The State Journal-Register reports (http://bit.ly/2noSh2c ) that the team will help the current staff to publish Lincoln's papers and make recommendations on the organizational structure and where to focus. Recommendations will be made by April. A deadline for the documents' online publication has not been set.

Iowa to digitize business records dating back to 1850s

By BARBARA RODRIGUEZAugust 25, 2016 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Secretary of State's office is turning to digitization to halt the deterioration of some business records that date back to the 1850s.

Indiana University’s digitization project ahead of schedule

July 25, 2016 GMT

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An effort to convert significant Indiana University audio and video recordings from analog to digital appears to be ahead of schedule.

The Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative aims to save 280,000 recordings by the university's bicentennial celebration in 2020, the Herald-Times (http://bit.ly/2aaBUfL ) reported.

Early estimates projected the entire process would take 15 years, said Laurie...