[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[John at Darkstar]

I wish someone would support Project Runeberg or Project Gutenberg so
they could scan them and make them _free_...
John

Nikola Smolenski skrev:
> John at Darkstar wrote:
>> In Norway a university has a large collection of newspapers, the
>> collection is claimed to cover around 3000 running meters in the store
>> house - without the norwegian and nordic newspapers, whats left is
>> international newspapers from the last 150 years. If no one is coming up
>> with a solution the collection is going to be destructed (actually burned)
>>
>> I think the best thing to do is to scan them and make them publicly
>> available. Of course neither I or WM Norway can set forth to do such a
>> task, but if there should be some wealthy person out there that might be
>> able to involve himself in such a task, I think it would be a very
>> worthy gift to the mankind (where is the women!) to do such a thing.
> 
> Google might be interested. In principle, they will scan for Google 
> Books everything you send them that is out of copyright. Also, perhaps 
> the Million Book Project. Maybe descendants of owners, editors, or 
> journalists of these newspapers will be interested to help too.
> 
> I'll notify some people.
> 
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