Information technology and society: Unique photo archive of TASS to be digitized

Digitization of the unique photo archive of the news agency TASS is scheduled to be completed by December 2016, all pictures will be published online in a special section.

Currently the first 170 thousand unique archival images and initiated proceedings published in a specially designed section on the TASS photo bank are digitized. Up to December 2016 will be treated the remaining 680,000 units of images (slides, negatives and paper).

Each processed image includes a title, description in Russian; in the future a significant part of the description will be translated into English.

The peculiarity of the project is that the digitization is performed directly in the building TASS, which ensures maximum safety and efficiency of the original works.

"Launching this project, we ourselves are not fully aware of the guardians of the rich array of knowledge and history is TASS. Already it is processed black-and-white pictures from the early 1920s until the mid-1960s, as well as color - until 1985. Each of the digitized images - is documentary evidence of the events that occurred in our country and the world in the XX century, witnessed by our correspondents", - commented the first results of work on the digitization of historical fund TASS Director General Sergei Mikhailov.