Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 24/01/2013 - 21:29
Scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute in UK and Agilent Technologies in USA have encoded digital files on synthesized DNA, including all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ASCII text, a PDF of a scientific paper, a medium-resolution JPEG 2000 colour photo - and a 26-second MP3 audio excerpt from Martin Luther King’s 1963 I have a dream speech.
Source: Nature, 2013. "Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA" http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11875
Submitted by Lynn Johnson on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 17:55
Please note that IASA is now accepting applications for the IASA 2013 Research Grant!
Date:
27 May 2013 to 31 May 2013
17th SEAPAVAA Conference
“Redefining The Audiovisual Archives In The Digital Age”
Date:
17 Aug 2013 to 23 Aug 2013
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013
Singapore
17th-23th of August 2013
Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) and Cataloguing Section (CATS)
Theme: Macro and Micro - Ways through the Maze. How new methods of indexing and cataloguing can complement traditional cataloguing for audiovisuals and multimedia.
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