The technical challenges are as exciting as the implications

• Input (scanning, digitizing, OCR)

  • But 90% of new information is “born digital”

• Data representation

  • Including metadata

• Multilingual support

• Scalability

  • Both of content and of user community
  • Today’s largest web-accessible databases are around 1 TB (Microsoft TerraServer)

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