digitisation
RSS digitisationGoogle seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitisation, Google on Monday said European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and... [08 Sep 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News We agree with European Commissioner, Viviane Reding, when she said, 'We should create a modern set of European rules that encourage the digitisation of books'. European Union regulators want publishers and authors to... [21 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News She repeated her call for pan-European intellectual property rights licensing, and also called for new rules to encourage the digitisation of books - to achieve this latter goal, she said, the creation of a Europe-wide... [09 Jul 2009]
Photos: Google Earth gets Caesar dressing
Photo The digitisation project began in 1997 and took 10 years to complete. Google Earth is painting a picture of what the ancient city of Rome looked like in 320 AD. The new 'Ancient Rome 3D' option for Google Earth allows... [14 Nov 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News The Commission wants both public and private investment to go into the project, in order to speed up the pace of digitisation, with just one per cent of national libraries' contents now digitised. However, the Commission... [12 Aug 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News A story that draws together two popular issues - the digitisation of student administration and catching cheats. Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit... [19 Dec 2007]
The cashless revolution is coming...
News Newton cited three developments contributing to the increasing digitisation of money: the consumerisation of IT, the globalisation of money markets and the basic convenience of the emerging payment methods. [09 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo This is one of the 100,000 books the British Library is planning to digitise over the next two years being scanned in the digitisation studio. The Library is working with imaging company Content Conversion Specialists... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project. Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the British Library's... [27 Sep 2007]
Data 'explosion' looming for businesses
News Speaking at the EMC World conference Ann Speyer, CIO at the Smithsonian Institution, said: "Capturing our cultural heritage through digitisation is one of the biggest challenges we face. Businesses face an information... [22 May 2007]
CEO and CIO still don't see eye to eye
Comment But they were certainly spending more time on tech than they had five years earlier - even Jack "I've never used email" Welch, on his way out the door at General Electric, got religion and started to preach about the... [01 Mar 2007]
Piracy, patchy broadband hurting online content industry
News Other issues slowing demand include a lack of specialised skills in media companies and the cost of digitisation of content. Piracy, the uneven adoption of broadband and the slow take-up of 3G mobile are all barriers to... [29 Jan 2007]
The telecoms operator of the future
Comment Operators are undergoing the most radical change the industry has seen since digitisation. The era of converged telecoms services is bringing big changes to the operators. Stewart Baines looks at what they'll need to... [02 Jan 2007]
Goodbye quarterly reports?
News But digitisation and the internet could enable users to customise the company information they receive and choose how it is presented, said the report. Six financial heavyweights have called for companies to overhaul... [09 Nov 2006]
Brampton Factor: Don't get your hopes up for BT's 21CN
Comment So instead of moving the UK rapidly towards end-to-end digitisation, BT left us with a largely analogue system beyond the exchanges that is only slowly giving way to ADSL. What can we expect from BT's next-generation... [17 Oct 2006]
