Sentences with phrase «digitising public»

The British Library has teemed up with Microsoft and the great thing is that they are going to be concentrating on digitising public domain books;

The other week the government formally opened its new Government Digital Service (GDS, digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk), a unit with the aim of digitising public services.

In the 21st century we need to modernise and digitise our public services fully to make them more effective and responsive to public need.

Not exact matches

In particular they seem to have failed utterly to grasp the importance of digitising back list as fast as they can — which has left the ebook offering to the public woefully short of the extent and quality of work that people love about books, and makes them preferable to film or music.

Dubbed the 1000 Great New Zealand eBooks, the idea is to provide a focus for the industry's own move to digitising books, to provide a platform for a joint marketing programme, and to generate public interest in e-reading.

Many national libraries digitise their collections for conservation reasons or even to grant access to them, but those are (older) books that are already in the public domain.

Copyright Licensing Ltd has formed a venture to digitise New Zealand books and make them available to the New Zealand reading public on new digital reading devices, including ebook readers and smartphones, Apple's iPhone and the forthcoming Google Android phones.

The idea is to make the country's vast collection of publicly owned art as accessible and well documented as possible by digitising as many works as it can, as well as encouraging opportunities for public participation.

They've catalogued and digitised all the UK's oil paintings in public ownership, but they won't stop there

How do we experience the public sphere in a global, chaotic and digitised world, and what kind of role does photography assume in this context?

Mining Josef Herman will enable new audiences to engage with digitised local and national archives, and create opportunities for members of the public to work with artists in making their own creative responses for publication online.

These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain.