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Spotlight: Happy Birthday, West Virginia

Unwritten Record

The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. The film, West Virginia and Its Natural Resources , was part of the film library of the Bureau of Mines. Originally, coal was mined for use by the salt industry, demand for it grew as other industries also began using the resource.

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The different types of renewable energy 

IBM Big Data Hub

For example, mining uses water in remote locations to aid in extractions and textile and chemical manufacturers may use on-site hydropower systems to power processes such as washing, fabrication, sanitation and more. Today’s wind turbines vary from small (single home or business) to utility-scale (offshore wind farms).

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

In the Neolithic Revolution, early humans discovered agriculture, which helped establish early civilizations. Over the millennia, agriculture has used countless technologies to increase production. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. Enabling CS for DT.

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South African print market growth lagging behind African recovery

Info Source

Over the past year, Libraries and Archiving, Education, Mining, Media Companies, and Agriculture have also demonstrated noteworthy progress towards adopting digitalisation, resulting in increased scanning needs. Furthermore, the influx of lower-priced Asian brands into the market is also fuelling growth.

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Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index

John Battelle's Searchblog

Now, Web 2 is known for in depth interviews with titans of business like GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, or former HP CEO and pending Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina - all of them are coming this year. What the company does is pretty simple, actually. Those images are, of course, digital. Wait, check that, it is, in a way.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

The combination of the two factors meant that when more people became interested in government film, mining for new material was not overly complicated. A major change in the last half century is the size of the National Archives’ film holdings, which in 1974 was estimated at 82,000 reels. [1] and viewed prints on machines called Moviolas.

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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Unwritten Record

Class in placer-mining (20 miles from Camp) Company 591 F-42; Superior, Montana.” Executive Order 6101 , which established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)*, was signed on April 5, 1933 by President Franklin D. It was signed just one month into Roosevelt’s presidency, making the CCC one of the earliest New Deal programs.