While a bit afield from codifying events from the world's news, GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru collaborated with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract the images from 600 million digitized book pages dating back 500 years from over 1,000 libraries worldwide and make them all browseable and searchable (via both the metadata of the original book and the text surrounding each image), "reimagining" the world's books.  For those interested, the source code and user manual to the image extraction system are available.

• View the Collection on Flickr
• Read the BBC Article Announcing the Collection
• Read the Internet Archive Announcement 
• Read the Flickr Announcement

Mark Sample at Davidson College set up this great bot that regularly tweets a random image from the collection, making for a great way to explore the collection!  @BookImages

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE:

• Arstechnica.
• DesignWeek.
• Daily Mail.
• PC Magazine.
• VentureBeat.
• Wired UK.
• Carl Malamud. (tweet)
• O'Reilly Media. (tweet)
• The Wire.
• Bloomberg.
• The Next Web.
• BoingBoing.
• Red Orbit.
• Tech Times.
• La Republica.
• La Gaceta.
• Zone Numerique.
• Next Inpact.
• Blog Moderator.
• ActuaLitte.
• Slate.fr.
• L'Express.
• Quill & Quire.
• The Drum.
• ArtNet.
• Huffington Post (Italian Language Edition).
• ANSA.it.
• Wired.IT.
• School Library Journal.
• Open Culture.
• Trademarks & Brands Online.
• CNET.
• ARTFIXdaily.
• WPTV.
• Chicago Tribune.  (Also page 9 of the September 4, 2014 print edition).
• ITMedia.co.jp.
• Falmouth Public Library Website Wednesday.
• The Daily Star.
• ZDNet.de.
• Yorokobu.
• Washington Post.
• Mental Floss.
• Smithsonian Magazine.
• HyperAllergic.
• Pocket-Lint.
• Wondermark. (September 9th comic uses images from the collection).
• Straits Times. (Singapore – print edition October 19, 2014).
• BBC Russian Edition.