UCC’s Boole Library been named as one of eight organisations worldwide to receive a Heritage Trust Project grant from telecommunications infrastructure and solutions provider EMC. The grant from the company’s Information Heritage Initiative programme will go towards building a digital library for the long-term preservation of texts and artefacts.
“Photographs, ancient writings, letters, film, music and visual art are all part of the world’s information heritage. Yet many of these historical treasures are at risk of disappearing,” said Bill Teuber, vice chairman, EMC Corporation. “Through the EMC Heritage Trust Project, we are dedicated to helping local community organisations worldwide preserve and protect these historic artifacts so that future generations can continue to enjoy and learn from them.”
The EMC Information Heritage Initiative programme was formalised in 2007 to recognise organisations and individuals that protect and preserve invaluable cultural information from around the world through digitisation, allowing readily accessible online research and education.
Other grant recipients were institutions based in Canada, Chile, Kyrgyzstan and Rwanda.
The grant will support the creation of a publicly available digital archive of printed books and papers of mathematician George Boole. Boole laid the foundations in the latter half of the nineteenth century for a system of mathematical expression which formed the basis for all modern computer languages.
EMC has donated more than $20 million to date to help advance the preservation and accessibility of information heritage.
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