Portals Magazine: Innodata Isogen on Institutional Trend to Digitize, Preserve History

February 28, 2004 - Innodata Isogen's Peter Kaufman is interviewed in the latest edition of Portals magazine. The discussion focuses on digitization efforts at the Smithsonian Libraries and how:

• Digitizing things like the US Exploring Expedition makes them far more accessible.
• Initiatives of this sort preserve the materials in case anything should happen to them or the buildings in which they are housed.
• Such undertakings enable greater and more rapid collaboration, particularly among academic researchers.

Commenting on this major trend toward cultural and institutional digitization, Kaufman notes that "there is a movement afoot...we see day in and day out cultural and educational institutions taking all kinds of steps to put their materials online for all these reasons."

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