And when a few users separately provide the same interpretation of the scanned word, it is fed back to the digitisation system.People performing online security checks could thus be put to work digitising old books and newspapers, without even realising that they were doing so.
If digitisation holds out the promise of every word ever written being cleanly stored on servers, unwieldy bricks made of paper and cardboard can easily fall into the dreaded modern category of "clutter".
Goodsir confirmed the print collection was sent to the US for digitisation, scanning and tagging and that a third had been returned in digital form.
"We are currently negotiating for the completion of the scanning and tagging work of this collection with the court-appointed receiver of the US digitisation company [Rogers Photo Archive]," Goodsir said.
"The Age negatives were shipped to the US for digitisation, and the actual negatives arrived back in Australia in March and are currently on site at Media House, Melbourne.
Email: [email protected]/ Twitter: @mooretoddy Tom Ross studio producer Before joining Guardian Australia in 2013, Tom worked at Digital Turbine in mobile content production, Murdoch Books in digitisation and Picture Media in web editing.
From its investor-relations department comes the usual soothing patter about the company's wonderful business model and its world-famous management initiatives (Six-Sigma, digitisation and so on).
"The publisher's job is to publish, and that includes electronically," he says.Publishers are determined to make sure that they will benefit from the digitisation of their product.
In health care, the digitisation of records would make it much easier to spot and monitor health trends and evaluate the effectiveness of different treatments.
South Korea has invested hugely in broadband, jumping from 11th to 2nd in the digitisation rankings.
