Congratulations to the Wisconsin Historical Society for receiving a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize citizen petitions submitted to the Wisconsin Legislature between 1836 and 1890. Here’s more information about the project …
Digitization
Malamud Building Gigantic Journal Database for Data Analysis
The journal Nature has an interesting piece on public domain advocate, Carl Malamud’s project to “build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles” for data analysis. No one will be allowed …
Making case law accessible to all
There have been some very exciting advances in the fight to make court documents more freely accessible to everyone. As many legal researchers and law librarians are aware, many legal materials can be relatively rare …
The University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository
Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this …
Digitize Your Old Photos, Home Movies, Etc. at Madison Public Library
Do you have a collection of analog materials (like home movies, video tapes, audio cassettes) or paper documents (photographs, etc.) that you’d like to digitize but don’t have the equipment to do so? Then check …
Article: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in …
Google wins digitalization case
Today, Judge Denny Chin ruled in favor of Google in what may be a landmark case that would enhance Fair Use for digital items. Google argued that scanning in books and publishing ‘snippets’ of the …
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections preserves slices of history
Want to jump in a time machine? The UW Digital Collections (UWDC) is the place to do it. Over the past twelve years, the UWDC has digitized thousands of images and other media from Wisconsin …
CAPTCHAs Being Used to Help Digitize Books with Poor OCR Accuracy
CAPTCHAs are those distorted letters that you have to enter after some internet transactions to verify that you’re actually a human. I recently learned that some CAPTCHAs are being used to help digitize old printed …
WiLS Offers Digitization on Demand of Public Domain Materials
WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special Collections and the Mills Music library that …