Hewlett-Packard is getting further involved in digital archives, as it announced yesterday it would be working with Time Magazine to create their archives. Last month, HP announced a collaboration with Getty to digitize their film archive.
The Time archive project is to digitize the more than 4000 issues published in the magazine's 70+ year history. HP will scan each page of each issue. I wonder if the archive will be simply the scanned surogates of the magazine, or will also include some OCR to provide a searchable, full-text database. I suppose I'll find out in May, when the project is scheduled to launch.
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