China's Ancient Treasures Go Digital
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| Hundreds of workers at museums, academic institutions and government
| offices in Taiwan are contributing to the National Digital Archives
| project. The research institute Academia Sinica, for example, is
| leading the software and database development effort, mainly
| using Linux and MySQL.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132439-c,sites/article.html
Related:
Microlibraries Project: 20,000+ books available on demand
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| The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has organized
| the Microlibraries Project, making over 20,000 Project Gutenberg
| books available at minimal cost through a simple print-on-demand
| system.
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| The entire library can be accessed here. The software used to
| convert these books is open source, and will be available soon.
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http://www.computers.net/2007/02/microlibraries_.html
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