[Lib-helig-l] Fwd: [DIGLIB] Wellcome Library announces major digitisation project

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From: "Henshaw, Christy" <C.Henshaw@wellcome.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:51:15 +0100
Subject: [DIGLIB] Wellcome Library announces major digitisation project
To: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@jiscmail.ac.uk, diglib@infoserv.inist.fr,
MASS-DIGITIZATION@jiscmail.ac.uk

The Wellcome Library has announced the launch of an ambitious
digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections,
including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists
Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar
http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/wellcome-library-launches-ma
jor.html
<http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/wellcome-library-launches-m
ajor.html> . This pilot project will see the digitisation of up to 1m
images from the Wellcome's archival and book holdings. A new digital
library infrastructure will also be created as part of this project for
long-term preservation, management and delivery of digital content.

The project is highlighted in a BBC audio slideshow published today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11016755.

Dr Christy Henshaw
Digitisation Project Manager
Wellcome Library <http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/>
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
+44 (0)20 7611 7333

Website: Wellcome Library Digitisation programme
<http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node350.html>
Blogs: Wellcome Library <outbind://4/wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com> /
JPEG 2000 <outbind://4/jpeg2000wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com>

Twitter: Chenshaw <http://www.twitter.com/Chenshaw> / WellcomeDigital
<http://www.twitter.com/WellcomeDigital>

The Wellcome Trust <http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/> is a registered
charity, no. 210183. Its sole Trustee is the Wellcome Trust Limited, a
company registered in England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is
215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

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