In the first phase of a plan to digitize the company's entire catalog, DG announced that it would offer about 2,400 high-quality albums 600 of them no longer in release to consumers in more than 40 countries via its DG Web Shop Internet site.
Upon receipt of the recordings in April, the NJMH began to digitize the material and explore ways of making the music available to the public.
During 2005 libraries coped with requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, and museums instituted security measures to prevent theft and thwart terrorism; Hurricane Katrina walloped libraries and museums on the U.S. Gulf Coast; and Google's plan to digitize the books of five major libraries had worldwide implications.
Google announces an agreement with several major research libraries to digitize and make available through its regular online search service the contents of millions of books that are no longer under copyright.
A satellite communications link, for example, may encode information in ASCII characters if it is textual, or pulse-code modulate and digitize it in binary-coded decimal (BCD) form if it is an analog signal such as speech.
Google, the ubiquitous Internet search service, in late 2004 had announced plans to digitize books from the collections of five great research libraries in the U.S. and Britain.
The country's National Library is planning to digitize all the books it holds and make them available to Norwegians for free.
The National Maritime Museum will now conserve, digitize and study the photographs and will then use them to create a series of travelling exhibitions.
During the early 1960s computers were used to digitize text for the first time; the purpose was to reduce the cost and time required to publish two American abstracting journals, the Index Medicus of the National Library of Medicine and the Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAA).
Instruments that enable a musician to digitize a sound waveform and then process it and play it back under musical control are called sampling instruments.
The Fairlight CMI was a general-purpose computer with peripheral devices that allowed the musician to digitize sounds, store them, and then play them back from a keyboard.
