CNET News Daily Podcast: Saving genocide testimony--before the tapes disintegrate
In a race against time, a massive digitization project is getting underway at the University of Southern California to save 100,000 hours worth of Holocaust an other survivor interviews.
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The University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute has begun a five-year project with the objective of saving and disseminating testimonies of Holocaust and other genocide survivors. CNET News' Greg Sandoval, whose story today chronicles what's by any account a massive technology transition--the digitization of 100,000 hours of interviews at a cost of more than $8 million--offers an overview of the project.
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