Darwin's docs evolve online
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17 April 2008
Thousands of documents connected to Charles Darwin are evolving into a digital archive, the Guardian has reported.
The 90,000 pages of manuscripts, notes, photographs and drawings are being collected by the Darwin Online project, which has begun work to digitise the last of them.
"[The documents] have been known to scholars, but for the first time they are available to everyone for free online," director, Dr John van Wyhe, told the paper.
Darwin Online includes Darwin's first draft of his theory of evolution, which went on to influence modern science's understanding of creation.
The documents are held by Cambridge University and the project to digitise and prepare the online archive began in 2002.
Increasingly museums and historical resources have looked to the internet as an educational tool and a means of safeguarding copies of their collections.
The British Library holds a digital collection of images, audio books and special collections, as do several of the world's most famous museums.
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