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Denmark’s largest digital archive launched

The Copenhagen Post – “Denmark’s largest digital photo album with nearly two million images…open[ed] to the general public [February 20, 2015]. Danes will have access to the online database at Arkiv.dk, which includes 1,841,254  documents such as photos, diaries, letters, and sound and video recordings. Since the late 1980s, all items from the country’s more than 550 archives have been recorded electronically, and today a large portion of them becomes freely available to the public. The Association of Local Archives estimates that Danish archives contain some 50 million images and more than 100 kilometres of shelves with original documents. Every month, 25,000 new photos will be added to the database…All documents in the digital archive are covered by the general rules of copyright, the oldest of them dates back to the 1600s.”

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