Digitizing History ; Innodata Puts Records of a Pacific Exploration On the Web
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 20, 2004
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Fragile, yellowed documents are given a new lease on life when digital images of the relics are posted on the Internet by Hackensack-based Innodata Isogen.
On Wednesday, the company's latest effort - the digitization of 15,000 images for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries - will be unveiled in a Web site documenting a Pacific exploration mission that sent 346 men on six vessels to exotic lands such as Fiji and Hawaii from 1838-1842. The United States Exploring Expedition (USExEx), which was documented last year in Nathaniel Philbrick's book "Sea of Glory," is considered a major achievement by historians and scientists.See the full content of this document
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Digitizing History ; Innodata Puts Records of a Pacific Exploration On the Web
Scholars of everything from geology to insects to plants have been leafing through the records for decades. Now, the information gathered more than 150 years ago has been upgraded to 21st cent...
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