Monday 27 August 2007

NASA imagery to go online

Cool digitization news: NASA is going to digitize EVERYTHING in its archives, which contain a 50-year collection of photos, videos, films and other material that's been gathered in manned and unmanned space missions. They've selected a professional, nonprofit digitization organization called Internet Archive to team with them and provide the digitization expertise. The two organizations are teaming through a non-exclusive Space Act agreement to help NASA consolidate and digitize its imagery archives using no NASA funds.
"We're dedicated to making all human knowledge available in the digital realm," said Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of Internet Archive. Laudable.

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