Xerox Corp. has teamed up with the Library of Congress to develop better ways to store, preserve and access digital images from America’s heritage, including a panorama of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken four days before he was assassinated and a picture of the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk. The trial will include up to 1 million digitized public domain prints, photographs, maps and other content from the library’s collections. Scientists in the Xerox Innovation Group will work with these materials to create an image repository that they will use to develop and test approaches for the management of large image collections.
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