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  2. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008.

  3. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF's emphasis on preserving the visual appearance of documents across different software and hardware platforms poses challenges to the conversion of PDF documents to other file formats and the targeted extraction of information, such as text, images, tables, bibliographic information, and document metadata. Numerous tools and source code ...

  4. Information history - Wikipedia

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    Information history is an emerging discipline related to, but broader than, library history.An important introduction and review was made by Alistair Black (2006). [15] A prolific scholar in this field is also Toni Weller, for example, Weller (2007, 2008, 2010a and 2010b).

  5. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - Wikipedia

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    James Gleick talks about The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood on Bookbits radio. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its ...

  6. Historical source - Wikipedia

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    In scholarship, a secondary source [4] [5] is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source is one that gives information about a primary source. In a secondary source, the original information is selected, modified and arranged in a suitable format.

  7. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

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    It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file whose filename ends with .exe

  8. Philosophy of information - Wikipedia

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    Donald M. MacKay says that information is a distinction that makes a difference. [4] According to Luciano Floridi [citation needed], four kinds of mutually compatible phenomena are commonly referred to as "information": Information about something (e.g. a train timetable) Information as something (e.g. DNA, or fingerprints)

  9. Open Library - Wikipedia

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    Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.