The National Library of Norway plans to digitize everything that was ever published locally, starting with ancient manuscripts and also including movies, books, maps, photos, and so on. This project has been around for 12 years already and current estimates claim it will take three more decades for it to reach the end.

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As Norway tops the ranking in a number of country indices (such as the 2017 Democracy Index) and its government seems to have no economic worries, it does not come as a surprise that a major culture-related project that will take over four decades to be completed has been up and running for 12 years already. The target of this project? To create a digital archive containing EVERYTHING that was ever published in Norway, an effort that has already generated over 8 petabytes of data.

The digital library mentioned above currently contains over 540,000 books, 1,300,000 photos, over 2,000,000 newspapers, and more. Before being stored, they have been mass-scanned and OCR-processed, so the text contents of the entire library can be searchable. Once it reaches the end — an event estimated to take place in about 30 years — this project will be full of ancient manuscripts and texts, posters, broadcasts, and also movies, maps, and all .no websites (over 24 billion web pages have been added to the collection already).