tirsdag den 9. september 2008

Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time


Slut med at side med micro film på det lokale bibliotek ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w0sNAAAAIBAJ&dq=armstrong&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6256%2C2864141

Bemærk hvorledes Google Map UI'en er genbrugt ...

/Sik



No more micro film starring at the local library ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w0sNAAAAIBAJ&dq=armstrong&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6256%2C2864141

Notice how the Google Map UI is reused.

/Sik


Quote



For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint -- from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written. And it's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily.

The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We want to change that.

Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. Let's say you want to learn more about the landing on the Moon. Try a search for [Americans walk on moon], and you'll be able to find and read an original article from a 1969 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Read more: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bringing-history-online-one-newspaper.html

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