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“ enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second” the engineer in me: compressed? With images? Or just raw texts?
by m3kw9 6y ago
“ enough to transmit the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second” the engineer in me: compressed? With images? Or just raw texts?
- andreasley 6y agoFrom 2016: "THE LOC’S DIGITAL COLLECTION currently comprises over 7 petabytes (7 million gigs) with more than 15 million items, including 150,000 print books. In an ideal future scenario, the LOC estimates that it could digitize a further 3-5 PB a year" [1] So only the raw texts, probably. 10TB sounds about right for that. [1] https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-library-of-last-resort/ https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-library-...