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Why the British Library Is Spending $55 Million on News Archives - Adrienne LaFrance. The institution is changing the way it defines journalism as part of preservation efforts.

Why the British Library Is Spending $55 Million on News Archives - Adrienne LaFrance

Storage built to house 750 million pages of the British Library newspaper collection. (Reuters) Just 2 percent of the British Library's massive archive of print newspapers have been digitized. That's going to change. The institution is completing a seven-year effort to upgrade its news archives, a $55 million (£33 million) project that's aimed at expanding the library's definition of "news. " Most people by now will acknowledge that news is recorded in newspapers and on Facebook and on Twitter and on blogs, etc., etc., but McKernan told me he's also thinking about "diaries, oral history, recordings, maps, posters, letters," and so on. "A lot of the thinking is about metadata and data models," he said in an email. In the next three years, the library plans to have digitized 30 million newspaper pages, 100,000 television news recordings, 100,000 radio broadcasts, and 1.5 million web pages.

Baccela. World's Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague - 40 Gigapixel 360º Panorama. About this photo This image was created from 3,000 individual photos stitched together into a single image that is 280,000 x 140,000 pixels.

World's Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague - 40 Gigapixel 360º Panorama

That's around 40 gigapixels, or 40,000 megapixels. If you printed this photo it would be 23 meters (or 78 feet) long! To control this image, use the controls on the screen or click and hold your mouse button on the photo, and move your mouse around. To zoom in and out, use your mouse wheel, or the "Shift" and "Control" keys. If you would like us to create a large gigapixel panorama like you see here, please contact 360Cities. Commission a gigapixel like this one We will shoot and deliver a specially commissioned spherical gigapixel photo for you to use in connection with your marketing campaign, tourism promotion, etc.

About 360cities.net We show you the world's most beautiful places in 360º. We publish, license, and distribute the world's largest collection of geolocated panoramic photos, created by our talented community of member photographers. Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727).

Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge

Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50. In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death. After his death, the manuscripts in Newton's possession passed to his niece Catherine and her husband John Conduitt. In 1872 the fifth earl passed all the Newton manuscripts he had to the University of Cambridge, where they were assessed and a detailed catalogue made.

See also. Cambridge Digital Library - University of Cambridge. University of the Pacific: Digital Collections.