"digitization" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of converting information, such as documents, photographs, music, and videos, from analog to digital formats. For example: "The digitization of our school's library allows students to access information faster than ever before."
Although the digital economy creates new ways to make money, digitization doesn't require a lot of workers: you can come up with an idea, write a piece of software, and distribute it to hundreds of millions of people with ease.
The Indian government's drive toward digitization hopes to address some of these issues by making all broadcasters transmit digitally by the end of 2014 deadline.
Although some authors and publishers challenged the project for fear of losing control of copyrighted material, similar digitization projects were launched by Microsoft Corporation and the online book vendor Amazon.com, although the latter company proposed that each electronic page would be retrieved for a small fee shared with the copyright holders.
The other significant technological development to affect the sound industry in the 1980s was digitization.
In 1994 Heyman became the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (founded 1846), a complex of museums and galleries, several research centres, and the National Zoological Park, most of which are located in Washington, D.C. Heyman's main task as secretary was the digitization of the Smithsonian's rich collection of information to make it readily accessible.
Making digitized books available for free online is a controversial issue, with Google's colossal digitization project only declared legal in the US at the beginning of this month.
As The Atlantic's Alexis C. Madrigal has pointed out, Norway's digitization project may put other countries at a disadvantage in some unforeseeable future.
But since 1994, an ambitious digitization program has slowly pushed the Dunhuang cache online, allowing scholars to reconstruct individual documents whose pages might be held by multiple collections, and to get a truer sense of its scope.
If you were going to make such a record available, as the most utopian champions of digitization imagine, you would have to include both literary works and archival documents never meant for publication.
The current era of digitization outstrips that of microfilm, in ambition and in achievement.
Among Google's potential competitors in the field of library digitization are members of the Open Content Alliance, which facilitates various scanning projects around the country and overseas.
