A newspaper is hoping to attract National Lottery funding to help it with a project that would see more than 750,000 photographs digitised. - See more at: http://www.storetec.net/news-blog/newspaper-hopes-to-attract-lottery-funding-for-digitisation-project

1. Newspaper Hopes to Attract Lottery Funding
For Digitisation Project
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A newspaper is hoping to attract National Lottery funding to help it with
a project that would see more than 750,000 photographs digitised.
The Express & Star in Wolverhampton has built up a vast array of
images in its archives dating back from the 1880s. Some of them
are of nationally important events such as the beginning of the First
and Second World Wars, while the others are a record of local
happenings such as carnivals that will still be of gravitas to social
historians.

2. At present, the photos are being stored in a library, but some have
already started to deteriorate and the owners are keen to convert them
into digital form so they can be preserved with their captions.
Heritage Lottery Fund money is being applied for to help with this, an
initiative that would make all of the images free to view and is being
supported by Wolverhampton University and Wolverhampton Museums
and Archives.
Editorial executive at Midland News Association Tom Graham said:
"The Express & Star's bid for money to preserve its photo archive is a
major step towards ensuring this priceless collection is available for
future generations."

3. The newspaper is not the only organisation to be embracing
technology as a way of retaining important yet vulnerable documents
for years to come. Earlier this month, it was revealed that children's
charity Barnardo's is creating an enormous online photo archive with
500,000 images dating back to the 19th century.
A 15ft long shelf of boxes eight inches deep and 20 inches high had
been hosting the images, but this will be impossible following a
forthcoming office move, so document scanning is to be implemented
to ensure their preservation.

4. Virtually every document can be scanned and turned into a digital
format, something we have lots of experience with here at Storetec. If
you are keen to start your own project, just give us a call to discuss
some ideas with us.
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