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Music, art, ideas and the institutions that keep them.
Most of the record of the past is on paper and film in boxes that few people will ever open. Digitization changes who can ask questions of it, and which questions get asked.
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The note an orchestra tunes to was fought over for two centuries, settled by an international conference in 1939 and written into a standard in 1955. Some orchestras still ignore it.
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A national archive in this illustrative scenario completed the digitization of its newsreel collection and reopened its screening rooms to the public.
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