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U.S. Congressional Reports & Documents back to 1817 to be Freely Accessible Online

Posted on October 24, 2019

The U.S. Government Publishing Office has announced that it is working with the Law Library of Congress to digitize and make freely accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set back to the first volume …

Posted in Data & Databases, Digitization

WHS Receives Grant to Digitize Early Citizen Petitions to WI Legislature

Posted on August 3, 2019

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 …

Posted in Data & Databases, Digitization

Malamud Building Gigantic Journal Database for Data Analysis

Posted on July 31, 2019

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 …

Posted in Data & Databases, Digitization

Making case law accessible to all

Posted on February 24, 2017

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 …

Posted in Digitization, Legal Professionals, Public Information, Web

The University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository

Posted on October 25, 2016

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 …

Posted in Digitization, Libraries & Librarians, Presentations & Workshops, Tools, UW Law School, Web

Digitize Your Old Photos, Home Movies, Etc. at Madison Public Library

Posted on June 21, 2016

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 …

Posted in Digitization

Article: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books

Posted on April 18, 2016

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 …

Posted in Books, Data & Databases, Digitization

Google wins digitalization case

Posted on November 14, 2013

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 …

Posted in Digitization

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections preserves slices of history

Posted on November 13, 2013

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 …

Posted in Digitization

CAPTCHAs Being Used to Help Digitize Books with Poor OCR Accuracy

Posted on December 12, 2011

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 …

Posted in Digitization
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