Googleplex is waiting for this
New
goal: digitizing the whole archival heritage
Google Books project started in 2010. When
the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma took their first volumes destined to
inaugurate the project of digitization of the library.
The volumes will become
digital files, suitable to be stored and accessed in the near future thanks to
the agreement signed between the MiBAC and Google Books in March 2010 for the
digitization of a minimum of 500,000 texts up to a maximum of one million
volumes.
It is a project designed for the preservation of rare books and valuable,
priceless heritage of libraries, large enhancement, use and disclosure of
relevant materials.
For the first time, the works, now entrusted only to the
transience of the paper, will be made accessible through the Internet in
digital form.
Prevention and recovery of stolen volumes, small restoration, virtual
reconstruction of incomplete editions, consultation of the material without
limits of space and time, are just some of the economic advantages which
involves the project.
For its part Google, at the express request the Ministry of Culture, has
created a Scanning Center in Italy, where will the digitization and production
of digital files of individual pages, text files generated by optical character
recognition technology.
It’s part of my research work and my ambitions. It’s also part of my desire
to preserve the documentary heritage of my country.
I digitized some important ancient documents now in a state of
deterioration. I saved them from the ravages of time.
Maybe Googleplex is waiting for this.
Look at my résumé.
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