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Photos: Inside HP's garage - the Silicon Valley birthplace
Photo Mancini said she buys the devices on eBay for between $75 and $300 for the company archives. Today, however, the house in front, where Packard lived with his wife, the shed behind, where Hewlett lived as a bachelor, and... [29 Jun 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile This is where technical specifications and archives for the UK's railways are held, essential to the company's ability to repair and improve the network. As well as delivering infrastructure and applications that support... [02 Jun 2009]
Whitehall hires a Twitter tsar
News Stott's role also involves chairing the government's Knowledge Council, and working with the National Archives to drive the Information Matters strategy for knowledge and information management. The... [14 May 2009]
Object-Oriented Classification for Change Detection With Different Spatial Resolution Images
White Paper In Canada, for example, in federal case the National Airphoto Library (NAPL) by Natural Resources Canada archives over six million aerial photos covering all of Canada. With rapid new technological... [13 Dec 2008]
Britain's classic computers: A silicon.com special
News These and many other machines are part of the archives at the National Museum of Computing, which houses all manner of vintage techie kit preserved for posterity, including the BBC Micro and the ZX... [02 Oct 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News The Commission is hoping the project will allow the continent's citizens to browse, search and compare the catalogues of major museums, libraries and archives over a single web portal under the name of Europeana. [12 Aug 2008]
BFI throws open rare film archive
News The BFI hopes to add another 30 digitised titles per month, and there are plans for other mediatheque centres around the country to access regional film archives. The 'mediatheque' at BFI Southbank - due to open next... [22 Feb 2007]
"Digital black hole" threatens your documents
News The consortium includes national libraries, archives, research institutes and technology specialists across Europe. Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, said European libraries and... [15 Dec 2006]
JFK files: Presidential archives to be put online
News The 10-year project to build a new digital library is a joint collaboration between IT vendor EMC, the Kennedy Presidential Library and the US National Archives and Records Administration. The... [12 Jun 2006]
Digital library to save web content forever
News The new National Digital Library will store everything from digitised versions of centuries-old manuscripts to digital journals and web archives and will hoover up 300 terabytes of data in the next five... [08 Jun 2006]
Public libraries get £750,000 for IT
News The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is awarding each library between £10,000 and £20,000 for wireless hotspots, satellite linkups on mobile libraries and interactive whiteboards. These grants follow a... [14 Oct 2005]
007 wannabes wanted
News Some old intelligence records are held at the National Archives. The overseas intelligence service MI6 has launched a new website to enlist recruits - so would-be 007s can now sign up online. The... [13 Oct 2005]
EC rivals Google with digital library plan
News The Commission acknowledged that making the resources in Europe's libraries and archives available on the internet "is not straightforward" and sets out three key areas for action; digitisation, online accessibility and... [03 Oct 2005]
Nazi gold to UFOs - National Archives frees information
Case Study It is the oldest record held at the National Archives (NA) today and one of millions of historic documents stored there. The first version of William the Conqueror's Doomsday Book was completed in 1086 -... [14 Sep 2005]
UFOs and meatballs - the effect of FOI on public sector
News Similarly, agencies such as the National Archives (NA) get requests for records of UFO sightings and information on Nazi gold - as well as more humdrum requests for public documents. Some requests can be... [14 Sep 2005]
