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Paul Gerhardt, project director of the Creative Archive Licence Group, added the big news stories of the last three decades were "the punctuation marks in the stories of our lives".
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"When you walk in, you are overcome by the smell of decay, and by awe at the sight of these staggeringly high piles of paper, " said Kate Doyle, of the National Security Archive, an American campaign group that specialises in tracing documents.
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The group has started with a searchable archive that includes the 250, 000 leaked State Department memos it had previously titled Cablegate and added to them 1.7 million files from the State Department during the 1973 to 1976 tenure of Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.
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Meantime, the city archive of Amsterdam, Holland, has acquired a group of some 3oo photographs discovered last year during the renovation of a private Amsterdam home.
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With a storage system that intelligently organizes, archive and retrieves all this data, the project group was able to conduct analysis in half the time compared to its previous system.
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