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The Future of Digital Content: DPC sets out agenda to save the UK's digital heritage and information
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) announced today that it is hosting a launch reception at the House of Commons on Wednesday 27th February 2002 as part of its activities to highlight digital preservation, and the work of the Coalition and its members. The evening will raise awareness of the... view more (2002-02-11)

Hi-tech 'watermark' will expose digital images that have been tampered with
Digital images that have been tampered with could now be spotted - thanks to a digital 'watermark' developed by UK scientists    Digital images such as CCTV footage are increasingly being used as evidence in high profile court cases. However, it is easy to tamper with an image and... view more (2002-06-26)

Press Conference: Digital Radio Mondiale To Reveal Latest Progress Toward Digital AM
As its launch date draws closer, Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) will reveal its latest technical progress toward digital AM in a bilingual press conference (German/English) at IFA 2001 on Monday, August 27th. The event will feature DRM Chairman (and Deutsche Welle Chief Engineer) Peter Senger, DRM... view more (2001-08-23)

Census of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count
Burgeoning marine life database tops 5 million records, 38,000 species Scientists add over 4 million new records, 13,000 species in 2004; Exponential growth of "information seaway" tops Census highlights   view more (2004-11-23)

Free Electronic Microscopes for Primary Schools
Every maintained primary school will get a free digital microscope as part of Science Year, Schools Minister Catherine Ashton announced today. The microscope forms the second instalment of the ‘Kit Pot’ fund which offers science teachers equipment to inspire young people in the... view more (2002-01-09)

Digital mammography results in technologists' time savings but physician time loss
Digital mammography saves technologists' time, but increases physician time compared to film screen mammography, a new study shows.   view more (2006-07-19)

UWE wins £236k to research digital printing
A major grant of £236,670 has been won by the University of the West of England's Art, Media and Design Faculty to aid research into new ways for fine artists to use digital methods of printing. The three-year research project will include study of the potential of the latest two-metre... view more (2003-08-11)

Digital TV gives clear, steady pictures in moving vehicles
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RIT Study Benchmarks Quality of Digital Archiving in American Museums
Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology have discovered a wide range of quality in the digital images being produced by American museums, libraries, and other cultural-heritage institutions and unfamiliarity with scientific protocol in the use of digital photography and color management.   view more (2005-08-22)

UVa Participates in Landmark Breast Cancer Screening Trial
Digital mammography that uses computers to detect breast cancer found significantly (up to 28%) more cancers than screen film mammography in women 50 and younger, premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and women with dense breasts, according to results from one of the largest breast cancer... view more (2005-09-21)

New Device could revolutionise eye disease diagnosis-creating eye maps on the high street
A new digital ophthalmoscope, devised by a research team led by the University of Warwick can provide both doctors and high street optometrists with a hand held eye disease diagnosis device equal to the power of bulky hospital based eye diagnosis cameras. It will also give optometrists the ability... view more (2007-03-06)

JISC Announces £1m Digital Preservation Programme for the UK
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announced today that it is making grants totaling more than £1million to nine UK educational institutions and their partners to support digital preservation and asset management in UK Higher and Further Education institutions.   view more (2004-10-27)

Study finds creating unique health ID numbers would improve health care quality, efficiency
Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would facilitate a reduction in medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall efficiency and help protect patient privacy, according to a new RAND Corporation study.   view more (2008-10-21)

How global is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility?
Biologists and computer scientists have appealed for more information on the world's biodiversity to be stored digitally so it may better be used to understand the impact of climate change on the Earth's flora and fauna.   view more (2007-11-12)

Humbul Launches My Humbul Include
The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk) today launches a new service that allows users to bring Humbul's records of evaluated online resources into their own web pages. My Humbul Include brings Humbul's resources direct to a researcher or lecturer's web page. Through the use of dynamic... view more (2002-05-30)

INDICARE: Two thirds of European Internet Users have Experience with Digital Music
A representative survey among 4852 European consumers finds that a large share of Internet users already has experience with digital music. However, the survey shows that the main source for digital music are ripped CDs, not Internet downloads. In addition, the survey reveals that consumers are not... view more (2005-05-25)

Nation's only citywide electronic health information exchange: Improving health and lowering costs
Across the nation concerns about health-care quality and costs are growing. For the first time, both candidates aspiring to the nation's highest office are looking to greater reliance on electronic medical records as critical to any remedy.   view more (2008-10-16)

British scientists create electron surf machine
By precisely controlling billions of individual electrons every second, they hope to develop new computing systems and increase the security of digital communication.   view more (2007-06-13)

NewsService Journaline: The Information Service for Digital Radio live at CeBIT
The new information service available for the digital radio systems DRM (Digital Rado Mondiale) and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) will be presented at the BMBF booth.   view more (2005-03-10)

Coming to a cinema near you - courtesy of ESA
We`ve got digital television. Next comes digital cinema. Thanks to ESA, cinema-goers in five European countries will be able to get an early taste of the new technology later this summer. As part of an ESA-funded project, ten cinemas in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be screening... view more (2002-06-25)

Enhanced English-language Japanese patent database now online
FIZ Karlsruhe re-loads JAPIO file Karlsruhe, Germany - FIZ Karlsruhe, the European Service Centre of STN International, one of the world's leading online providers of scientific and technical information, has recently made available an improved version of the JAPIO patent database. The new version... view more (2002-10-30)

Patient privacy assured by electronic censor
Newly developed software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential data.   view more (2008-07-24)

Digital Mammography Trial Results Announced
Preliminary results from a large, clinical trial of digital vs. film mammography show no difference in detecting breast cancer for the general population of women in the trial.   view more (2005-09-19)

Interactive TV Laboratory
The Basque Association Vicomtech has designed and built an interactive TV Lab containing the hardware and software for the main technological platforms involved in the deployment of Digital Interactive TV Applications and Services that support DVB-MHP standars. The main purpose of this Lab is to... view more (2002-10-08)

The paperless office - Myth or Reality?
In this age of emerging digital technology, why is the use of paper still on the increase? And for that matter, why are we still using paper at all? Experts have been predicting over the last thirty years the concept of the paperless office. Yet research from a newly published book, The Myth of the... view more (2001-11-16)

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