The Video Game History Foundation is scanning Japanese magazines now
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The Video Game History Foundation's free digital archive of game magazines has reached a significant milestone of 5,000 issues. This achievement marks a major milestone for the foundation. However, the archive is now taking an exciting new step by expanding beyond English-language magazines to include Japanese publications. Starting with Neo Geo Freak, a Japanese magazine that ran from 1995 to 2000, the foundation is adopting a specialized approach to preserve these historical documents.
Professional archivists in Japan have provided the foundation with the names of libraries that are ideal for transcribing Japanese documents. The foundation has then incorporated these libraries into their text mapping toolset, which is already used for English-language magazines. To index the major articles from the complete run of the Japanese magazine, the foundation has taken an additional step.
They have assembled a group of Japanese-fluent volunteers who will create a list of the most significant articles and interviews for each issue. This method allows for the more efficient and practical preservation of the magazine's contents while avoiding the issues that can arise from automated bulk translation.
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