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scanathon

scanathon noun: an event at which people digitize a large amount of archival material.

Noun

scanathon (plural scanathons)

  1. An event at which people digitize a large amount of archival material.
    • A Scanathon is an event the purpose of which is to preserve family photos by scanning them.2017, “The Scanathon connection”, in The Forest Park Review
    • The purpose of the scanathon was to test new archival tools for ‘digitisation on demand’ developed as part of the READ project (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.2018, Eirini Goudarouli, “Testing new ‘digitisation on demand’ tools”, in The National Archives

Forms of scanathon

pluralscanathons

Origin of scanathon

From scan + -athon.

Questions about scanathon

What does scanathon mean?
Scanathon means an event at which people digitize a large amount of archival material.
What part of speech is scanathon?
Scanathon is a noun.
What is the plural of scanathon?
The plural of scanathon is scanathons.

Words near scanathon in the dictionary

  1. scan sheets
  2. scan-a-thon
  3. scan-a-thons
  4. scan. mag.
  5. scanability
  6. scanathon
  7. scanathons
  8. scanbed
  9. scanbeds
  10. scance
  11. scanced

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