National Archives Unveils New Mass Digitization Center in College Park | National Archives

peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-04-17

Summary:

"The new center’s equipment fleet includes high-speed scanners and overhead camera systems that can handle a variety of record types and formats. Thanks to this equipment, the National Archives will be able to digitize up to 10 times as many records per year. This will provide Americans with access to millions of additional records each year. With more than 13 billion paper records in its holdings, being able to speed up digitization is critical to the agency’s mission of providing access to federal records...."

Link:

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/mass-digitization-center-college-park-opening

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Tags:

oa.new oa.usa oa.archives oa.digitization oa.psi oa.data oa.preservation

Date tagged:

04/17/2024, 09:20

Date published:

04/17/2024, 05:20