Digitizing

The library started digitizing its collection decades ago.

By digitizing your photo collection, you can preserve thousands of photos on a tiny flash drive.

Since a teenager, I've read a lot of strange sci-fi stories on printed books, which may yet need digitizing for the Internet Ocean. One story tells of a civilization on a different planet wherein short people are superior to tall people, and their written language is a combination of phonograms and logograms. I know that Classic Maya and Modern Japanese are logosyllabic.

There is an effort in the U.S. to bring this "dark data," as it's called, into the light through digitizing museum collections.