An American academic has uploaded 2.6 million of history’s copyright free images to image-sharing website Flickr to allow users to take a digital trip through time.
Kalev Leetaru, has uploaded an astonishing 2.6 million fully-tagged images and drawings from books as part of the Internet Archive Organisation’s scanning process.
According to Leetaru, internet digitaisation projects have traditionally been more focused on archiving the writings of the past with images being widely ignored.
Even illustrated print ads have been uploaded to the social media archive.
Leetaru told the BBC: “For all these years all the libraries have been digitising their books, but they Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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