Digitizing the USPTO patent backfile.
The digitization of the US Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) backfile of six million patents undertaken between 1951 and 2001 was a five-decade struggle, featuring several media transitions from print and microfilm to CD-ROMs and, finally, the Web. This mass digitization project is on a similar...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 335 - 348 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2024
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