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Yale University Library Keeping Over 300 Years of History Alive with Preservica

The Yale University Library, which recently celebrated its 314th anniversary, is collaborating with Preservica to preserve nearly one petabyte (PB) of digital content. The Yale Library comprises 15 libraries and houses more than 15 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases.

Your personal Watson predicts Christmas trends

IBM has launched the IBM Watson Trend App, a new way for Christmas shoppers to understand the reasons behind the top trends of the season and also predict the hottest products before they sell out. The app is available via a free download at the Apple App Store. 

$US1B to digitise a single US Immigration form: WSJ reports

The Wall Street Journal has reported that despite an outlay of $US1 billion and a decade long effort to digitise 100 paper based forms used to process applications to immigrate to the US, only one has successfully been implemented.

Avoiding the Data Swamp: How do we govern big data?

Have you encountered problems governing new types of data? When talking about new kinds of data I would suggest that most readers will think primarily of big data, both structured but particularly in this case unstructured.

Canon Australia acquires BPO Converga

Canon Australia has acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum. Converga specialises in business process outsourcing with a focus on digital document solutions.

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