DIGITALIZING A 1000 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES…
“As eye-boggling as it is mind-boggling.”
— STELLA DENVER
ZEBRA CROSSING
DIGITALIZING A 1000 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES…
“As eye-boggling as it is mind-boggling.”
— STELLA DENVER
ZEBRA CROSSING
Call us Team ZC. We have members from India (where our project took off), China and Pakistan. And, extending to "the farthest geographical point on the Earth's surface from India", TEAM ZC even has a member from Chile — 7,500 kilometers or 10,900 miles away. This is just a tangential indication of how truly global we are, thanks to our lively presence and interactions on ResearchGate (RG), a social networking site with over 20 million researchers. The first person to sign up at covid19on.com was a Karachi-based researcher from RG. The pandemic united us. Covid19on.com was launched in December 2019 — months before governments worldwide began announcing lock-downs one after another. Back then, most of TEAM ZC members were part of TEAM 19. These two teams can be viewed along a continuum of group cohesion or synergic cohesion, as we are engaged in a project to digitalize a 1,000 newspaper articles.
We wanted the cover image (top) to convey a lot, including a Team ZC member's exclamation, and that's all there in a rectangle. What its says is that the site is not like a finished product that has already started serving its purpose. It takes place as you watch it. It's rather a real-time sneak preview of a project that we are currently working on -- slowly, often unsteadily, due…
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We said NO. We will reach out for updates on the topics touched on by ZEBRA CROSSING, which inherently has an encyclopedic orientation readily recognized by several ResearchGate scholars. We will try to bring in fresh insights and cutting-edge discoveries that match ZC’s one-of-a-kind focus. Follow us in the SEQUELS section.
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