New York Times Archive

The New York Times has made ​​their entire archive into the net - back to 1851. The grand old dame of U.S. newspaper journalism but also makes for a stylish digital future: digital newspaper vending machines and geographic network applications. The "New York Times" has made ​​their entire archive into the net - back to 1851. The grand old dame of U.S. newspaper journalism but also makes for a stylish digital future: digital newspaper vending machines and geographic network applications.

One of the developers who develop for the "New York Times' current digital future models, put it: The past 150 years on we have made ​​a newspaper - and you can organize the data only on a single species, if they are printed. but today there are a lot of different ways you can break the news. You can read there what the newspaper had to say about the end of World War II, or view the original coverage of the Titanic disaster. The Grey Lady, so one could say, looking back now at the same time very far and very far into the future.

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Times the machine is one with current Web technology to high-gloss polished digital archive - for non-subscribers is unfortunately only one freely accessible. The development team has turned into a complete e-paper pages, some articles you can separately view as PDF. The operation is intuitive, and the treasures that are there to lift will employ generations of pupils, students, historians and amateur historians. Similar to the now fully accessible archive MIRROR - that naturally goes back only 60 years and not 157th But this journalistic legacies are just from today's perspective first time: data. Just as today's newspaper.

And that, added Robert, will not change dramatically in the near future. The newspaper will be printed for many years because it just give readers who would not convert to digital editions. Scoble made ​​the plans for such digital versions but then show times already - for example, a digital newspaper vending machines, on whose screen you can get your own personalized newspaper compiles, which is then used as an expression of the machine .