Universities and biodiversity institutes have hidden treasures: their collections of pressed plant specimens. These plants ...

2.8 millions items in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections went open access on Feb. 25. Margaret Osborne These bumblebees were part of a mass digitization project at the Smithsonian’s ...

Over the past few years I have watched with mild angst as more organizations declared that they are “digitizing” their businesses. First, I was never clear on what this means. Second, I wondered about ...

Digitization is a byproduct of technological evolution and digitization makes data available to anyone with an Internet connection. (Courtesy: Canva) Facebook Twitter Reddit Copy current article link ...

Policymakers today face an environment transformed by information and communications technology (ICT). More people today have access to a mobile phone than to electricity; the amount of data generated ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has published a commentary in Nature Reviews Biodiversity highlighting how digitization in a contextualized form can be ...

It’s no secret that digitization continues to be a hot topic in the tech industry. Digitization, also known as digital transformation, is the integration of digital technology and tools in the ...

In a first of its kind, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution G. Wayne Clough has published a new e-book, entitled Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age. As a ...

According to the “Global Book Publishers Market Report (2021 to 2030): Covid 19 Impact and Recovery,” worldwide sales of e-books are predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.7% in the ...