Why Datapages?
Datapages endeavors to make geological publications accessible. To do this, we strive to ensure that publications are simultaneously available, searchable, and portable.
Availability
The information contained in geological publications can have a longer shelf life than the bound documents themselves. Over the years, books go out of print and become rare, or they suffer the ravages of moths and mildew. As a result, a great deal of valuable geological information is lost. To combat this loss, Datapages digitally captures geological publications and archives them to electronic media, thereby ensuring their future viability by making them available to the geological professionals who need them most.
Indexes notwithstanding, searching for very specific information within large documents can be tedious and time consuming. By digitizing publications, Datapages marries document content with your computer’s processing power, making it possible to execute keyword searches much more quickly and accurately.
Portability
Datapages digitizes document collections that span multiple decades and many shelves of library space. Once these documents are digitized, Datapages can place all this information on a single DVD. This not only means you can search millions of words of text in seconds, it means that when you’re done, you can put the entire collection in your coat pocket and walk away.