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General Sources on Digital Projects

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. Cornell University Library, 2000. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/

Moving Theory into Practice Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. Research Libraries Group, Mountain View, California, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html

Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Anne R. Kennedy and Stephen Chapman. Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library, 1996. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/dila.html

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Digital Library Federation, the Council on Library & Information Resources, & the Research Libraries Group. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/

Library of Congress - American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

Colorado Digitization Project - Digital Toolbox. http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/toolbox.html

Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative. Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://images.library.uiuc.edu/resources/links.htm

AHDS Publications Arts & Humanities Data Service. http://ahds.ac.uk/public.htm

California Digital Library/Online Archive of California. A project to provide finding aids for archival and museum collections using Encoded Archival Description. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

Ohio Digital Projects

African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920. OHS' contribution to American Memory. http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/

Case Western Reserve University, University Library, Special Collections. http://www.cwru.edu/UL/SpecColl/speccoll.htm

Champaign County Library (Ohio). http://www.champaign.lib.oh.us/warsketch/warsketch.htm

Greater Cincinnati Memory Project. http://memory.gclc-lib.org

Cleveland Digital Library. http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl/

Cleveland Public Library Exhibit Hall. http://www.cpl.org/ExhibitHall.asp

Columbus Metropolitan Library - historic buildings and photographs. http://www.cml.lib.oh.us/webwebfinder/cmldb.cfm

Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Click on "Local History". http://www.dayton.med.va.gov/museum/

Electronic Oberlin Group. Click on "Local History". http://www.oberlin.edu/EOG/

Kinsman Free Public Library. http://www.kinsmanlibrary.org/local_history.htm

National Military Home (Dayton, OH). http://www.daytonvamc.com/museum/index.html

Oberlin College Archives. http://www.oberlin.edu/~archive/

Ohio Northern University Historical and Genealogical Resources. http://www.onu.edu/library/onuhist1/onuhist1.htm

OhioLink Digital Media Center (DMC). http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/

Ohio State Reformatory Museum. http://www.mrps.org/

The Papers of Philander Chase. Kenyon College. http://www2.kenyon.edu/khistory/chase/welcome2.htm

Reed Memorial Library. http://www.reed.lib.oh.us/localhistory_toc.htm

Rodman Public Library. http://www.rodman.lib.oh.us/rpl/history/

Sandusky County Scrapbook. http://www.sandusky-county-scrapbook.net

Toledo's Attic (Ohio). www.attic.utoledo.edu

Way Public Library Local History Restore Project. http://www.way.lib.oh.us/Local%20History/local_history_restore_project.htm

Willoughly-Eastlake Public Library. http://www.wepl.lib.oh.us/historical_photos.htm

Worthington Public Library/Shaker Heights Public Library Our Town Digital Library Project. http://www.townlibrary.org/

Worthington Memory. http://www.worthingtonmemory.org

Selected OnLine Exhibits and Digital Collections

The Chicano/Chicana Experience in Arizona.. Arizona State University. http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/website/index.htm

Virtual Archival Exhibits from Around British Columbia. Archives Association of British Columbia. http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/exhibit.html

A Century in Shoes. The Marketing Store. http://www.centuryinshoes.com/home.html

Connecticut History Online. http://www.lib.uconn.edu/cho/

Special Collections Exhibitions at Georgetown. http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/exhibit.htm

Florida Memory Project. http://www.Floridamemory.com

Greater Rochester History Online. http://history.rhpl.org/

Illinois State Museum's At Home in the Heartland. http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/index.html

Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Unpacking on the Prairie. http://www.jewishwomenexhibit.org/default.asp

Library of Congress's America's Story. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

Louisville Public Library Obituary Database. http://genealogy.louisville.lib.oh.us/

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Check out the collections and the "My Met Gallery" feature. http://www.metmuseum.org/

Oregon State University Archives Exhibits. http://osu.orst.edu/Dept/archives/exhibits/index.html

Rice University, Fondren Library, Electronic Text Center Projects. http://www.rice.edu/fondren/etext/projects/index.html

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web. http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/

University of Idaho Library; Special Collections & Archives. http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/

J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Photograph Archives. http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo

Virtual Library of Virginia. Select collections. http://www.viva.lib.va.us/

The Women in Photography International Archive. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/index.htm

Listservs

Conservation OnLine (listserv) Resources for Conservation Professionals. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

DIGLIB. The DIGLIB mailing list is for librarians, information scientists, and other information professionals to share information about the many issues and technologies pertaining to the creation of "digital libraries." http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm

Interoperability List. A list for discussion of issues related to building and using interoperable digital services across a range of domains such as libraries and museums. It will also disseminate details of work from the UK Interoperability Focus, and will act as a forum for others working in this important field. All commands should be sent to the Mailbase SERVER at mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/interoperability/

Padiforum-l. Discussion list for the exchange of news and ideas about preserving access to digital information. Subscribers are encouraged to post digital preservation news, including announcements of forthcoming events, to padiforum-l. Discussion on all aspects of preserving access to digital information, is also welcome. Padiforum-l is administered by the National Library of Australia as part of its Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) initiative. http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List

This is a general listserv for archivists. http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

Continuing Education

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Cornell University. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/index.html

Northeast Document Conservation Center - School for Scanning. http://www.nedcc.org

Reports and Publications

Digitization publications.
Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives.
Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project (online version).
Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project (print version).
General Action Survey.
Manual Guides for Basic Conservation Treatment.
Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access.
Cornell University Publications.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/publications.html

Council on Library and Information Resources Reports. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html

D-Lib. The D-Lib program supports the community of people with research interests in digital libraries and electronic publishing. D-Lib Magazine is a monthly compilation of contributed stories, commentary, and briefings. Ready Reference is a convenient clearinghouse of pointers to other sites on the web of interest to researchers and users of digital libraries.
http://www.dlib.org/
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

D-Lib Magazine. The magazine is published eleven times a year and is released on the World Wide Web monthly (except the July and August issues, which are combined and released in July) DLib-Subscribers is not a discussion list. DLib-Subscribers is the subscription mailing list for D-Lib Magazine. Subscribers will receive a notice via this list when a new issue of the magazine is published. http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers.

Digital Library Federation. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was founded in 1995 to establish the conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars, students, and a wider public. The Federation is a leadership organization operating under the umbrella of the Council on Library and Information Resources. It is composed of participants who manage and operate digital libraries. http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm

Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers. Information on lessons learned is particularly helpful.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/libt1999/libt1999.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/lessons/lessons.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/

Visual Arts Data Service. VADS provides, preserves and promotes high quality digital resources in the visual arts and the Technical Advisory Service for Images advises and supports the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
http://www.tasi.ac.uk

Additional Publications

The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/

Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november99/11jones.html

First Monday e-journal.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/
The site has papers from the Web Wise conference in March 2000.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_6/index.html

Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub93/pub93.pdf (Adobe Acrobat file)

Guide to Digital Resources. http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/resguide2000/contents.shtml

Terminology & Technical Information

Introduction to Imaging by Jennifer Truant and Howard Besser. Getty Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/introimages/index.html

Glossary. Getty Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/introimages/Gloss.html

RLG DigiNews. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/browse.html

Selecting a Scanner. By Don Williams. From RLG Guide to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide2.html

Howard Besser's Personal Page. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~howard/

Kodak Digital Learning Center. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/

Conversion - File Formats

General Guidelines for Scanning. Colorado Digitization Project. http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/scanning.html

Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet. University of Virginia Library. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/scanimage.html

Digital Projects with technical information

William Blake Archive. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/public/about/tech/

Making of America: Frequently Asked Questions. Cornell University. http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_faq.html

Denver Public Library. http://gowest.coalliance.org/faqs.htm#six

Duke. http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/gedney/techinfo.html

German Retrospective Conversion Center. Center for Retrospective Digitization, Gottingen State and University Library. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en-old/gdz_main_en.html

Vatican. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html

Selection Criteria

Moving Theory into Practice, Kenney and Rieger, p. 11-23.

Selecting Research Collections for Digitization. Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html

Selection Guidelines for Preservation. Janet Gertz, Columbia University. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/gertz.html

Guidance for Selecting Materials for digitisation. Paul Ayris, University College London http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html

The Intrinsic Value of Archive and Library Material. Marburg Archive School. http://www.uni-marburg.de/archivschule/intrinsengl.html

Selection Criteria For Digital Imaging. Columbia University Libraries. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html

Selection for Digitizing: a Decision-Making Matrix. Harvard University. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/matrix.html

Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital Reformatting. Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presselection.html

Selection Criteria and Guidelines. National Agriculture Library. http://preserve.nal.usda.gov:8300/projects/criteria.htm

Scoping the Future of the University of Oxford’s Digital Library Collections. Oxford University. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/report.html

Selection Criteria for Digitization. University of California. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucpag/digselec.html

Copyright

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Copyright and Fair Use. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Copyright Clearance Center. http://www.copyright.com/default.asp

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues. Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/

Copyright Management Center, Indiana Univeristy-Purdue. http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/fairuse.html

Crash Course in Copyright. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

Library of Congress Copyright Office. http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

Moving Theory into Practice, p 11-23.

When Works Pass into the Public Domain. Includes material from new Term Extension Act, PL 105-298. http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

When Works Pass Into the Public Domain: Copyright Term for Archivist. Cornell Institute for Digital Collections. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/copyright/

Metadata

Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Kenney & Chapman, Chapter 4.

Moving Theory into Practice, Kennedy & Rieger, p. 84.

EAD. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

Berkeley Sunsite Resource Page. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Info/

Dublin Core. http://purl.org/dc/

W3source Description Framework (RDF). http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop. NISO/CLIR/RLG. http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/imagerpt.html

IFLATNET; Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources. http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

Professional Practice/Standards

Introduction to Archival Organization and Description: Access to Cultural Heritage. Getty Information Institute. http://www.schistory.org/getty/

Archival Processing Manual. Yale University. http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/manuscript/process/index.html

Introduction to Vocabularies. Getty Information Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/vocabulary/introvocabs/index.html

Museums and the Web Conference Papers. Archives & Museum Informatics.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/sessions/index.html#EVT15000115
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/papers/callery/callery.html

"Unifying Our Cultural Memory," article from Archives & Museum Informatics. http://www.archimuse.com/papers/ukoln98paper/

MARC Standards. Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

Quality Control

Moving Theory into Practice, Kennedy & Rieger, p61-83.

Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats. Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html

Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections, by Franziska S.Frey and James M. Reilly, published by the Image Permanence Institute. http://www.rit.edu/%7E661www1/sub_pages/page3a.htm#7

Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/cover.htm

Web Design

"What Users Want from Digital Image Collections," Moving Theory into Practice, p4.

useit.com, Web site of Jakob Neilsen, "Web Guru". http://www.useit.com/

Tools and Techniques in Evaluating Digital Imaging Projects, RLG DigiNews June 15, 1999. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-3.html#technical1

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, 2000
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html
http://patricklynch.net/biblio/

Web Design Guidelines, IBM, 1999. http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/572

7 steps of Web Interface Design. By Duncan Barnes, Rawinia Fisher, Christie Budden, & Denis Knight. http://139.230.168.22/1999_02/pm/Interface2/default.html

Presentation Issues

The Browser-Safe Color Palette. By Lynda Weinman. http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

Digital Images in Multimedia Presentations. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/dimp1.html

Bandwidth Conservation Society. http://paxar.bc.ca/bpc/Bandwidth_Stuff/default.html

Graphics viewers, editors, utilities and info. http://physics.hallym.ac.kr/resource/hotlist/graphics.html

Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements Printed Illustrations. Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/rt/illbk/ibs.htm

GIF Images/Bit Depth Chart. Bandwidth Conservation Society. http://paxar.bc.ca/bpc/Bandwidth_Stuff/chart.html

The Unofficial TIFF Home Page. By Niles Ritter. http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff/

Preservation

RAP: the Regional Alliance for Preservation. Regional Alliance for Preservation. http://www.rap-arcc.org/

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