The New York Times will Digitize its Photo Archive
This may turn out to be a gold mine for historians and genealogists alike. The New York Times is planning to digitize more than a century’s worth of photographs, and it is going to use Google Cloud to do so.The plan is to digitize MILLIONS of images — some dating back to the late nineteenth century — to ensure they can be accessed by generations to come. The digitization process will also prove useful for journalists who will be able to delve into the archives far more easily in future.
Until now, historic news articles and photos have been stored on microfilm and in other physical forms. This is not only difficult to catalog and navigate, but also prone to deterioration over time and through use.
Brian Stevens, Chief Technical Officer of Google Cloud, stated:
“Google Cloud technologies like Cloud
Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Vision API are helping to preserve
this priceless history and give journalists a new way to search, access,
and analyze millions of historic photos and give them new life. Cloud
technology is allowing The Times to protect one of their most unique
assets migrating from steel filing cabinets to a cloud-based platform
where journalists can bring visual storytelling to a whole new level.”
You can read more in an article by Mark Wycislik-Wilson in the BetaNews web site at: https://betanews.com/2018/11/09/new-york-times-google-cloud/.
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