Hacker News with Generative AI: Digitization

Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection (newberry.org)
Newly digitized map collection makes over 750 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps available online.

History, Maps, Digitization, Libraries

26 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 1 comments

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (theappendix.net)
Yesterday was Darwin Day, marking the 205th anniversary of the great naturalist’s birth on February 12, 1809. One of the great things about Darwin is that a huge amount of his work is digitized and freely available via sites like Darwin Online.

History, Biology, Science, Digitization

509 points by arbesman 23 days ago | 136 comments

Painstaking work to conserve Ireland's oldest paper documents begins (theguardian.com)
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

History, Conservation, Ireland, Digitization, Documents

12 points by bookofjoe 129 days ago | 3 comments

History, Digitization, Art, Ireland

415 points by ColinWright 215 days ago | 98 comments

Linux, Digital Media, Community, Digitization, Open Source

10 points by kaishiro 329 days ago | 1 comments