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Subject Index
Resource Materials Available in USM's Special Collection Digital Lab

 Subject Index

Authenticity Index

Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the needs of Research Resources: Draft for Public Comment, August 2001. http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf

Authenticity: Working Bibliography. NHPRC. U.S. INTERPARES Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems). http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/us-interpares/bibliography/ (resource URL shortened)

"Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the Central Role of Trust". Authenticity in a Digital Environment, pp. 32-50. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/lynch.html

Authenticity of Digital Resources: Towards a Statement of Requirements in the Research Process. David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, D-Lib Mabazine (June 1998). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june98/06bearman.html

Authenticity in a Digital Environment. Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/contents.html

Carrying Authentic, Understandable and Usable Digital Records Through Time. T. Bikson and J. Rothenberg. RAND-Europe, August 1999. http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/ (resource URL shortened)

Digital Signature Standard (DSS). FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication). FIPS PUB 186-2, January 2000. http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip186.htm

Access Management -- Copyright Index

Copyright Basics. United States Copyright Office. http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html

Copyright FAQ. AHDS. Geared toward the United Kingdom, but still useful. http://ahds.ac.uk/bkgd/copyrightfaq.html

Copyright Law, Title 17, U.S. C.  http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17

Copyrightlaws.com. "An informative Web site devoted to Canadian, U.S. and international copyright law, digital licensing, e-commerce, digital property and Web related legal issues." Includes links to articles and information on seminars, workshops, and newsletters. http://www.copyrightlaws.com/index2.html

Copyright Management Center.  Indiana University-Purdue University.  http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/

The Digital Object Identifier: Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection Online. Bill Rosenblatt. JEP: Journal of Electronic Publishing, 3 (no. 2; December 1997). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html

Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. Copyright: An Overview. Includes links to both U.S. and international copyright information, as well as other intellectual property issues. http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

"Recent Lessons from the Courts: The Changing Landscape of Copyright in a Digital Age". Brett I. Miller. RLG DigiNews 4 (no. 2; April 15, 2000). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-2.html

United States Copyright Office.  http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

University of California, San Diego "Copyright Considerations". http://scilib.ucsd.edu/electclass/CopyrightTips.html

Stanford University Libraries, "Copyright and Fair Use".  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/primary/index.html

Access Management -- Watermarking & Related Technologies Index

Links to articles on digital watermarking and companies related to this technology.  www.webreference.com/multimedia/watermarks.html

RightsMarket Inc. Canadian company specializing in digital rights managment and protection. http://www.rightsmarket.com/

Steganography & Digital Watermarking: Information Hiding. Neil Johnson. On the technical side, but has a lot of good information, plus links to other sites. http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/

CD & DVD Technology Index

Octave Systems, Inc.  Several articles and FAQs on recording to CDs.  www.octave.com/library.html

Transferring LPs to CDR.  http://www.delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm

Resources for CD-R. Includes a primer on CD-R in simple language. http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/primer/primer.htm

Conferences, Workshops, and Conference Proceedings Index

The Archivist's Daybook. A listing of meetings, workshops, and seminars around the world, with an emphasis on those items of interest to archivists.  www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/Daybook.html

Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library.  Report of an international conference held in 1997 in London.  Links to many papers. http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/ (resource URL shortened)

Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals. Excellent week-long workshop. http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/

Museum Computer Network (MCN) 2000.  Las Vegas, Nevada.  November 5-8, 2003.  http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html

Web-Wise: A Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World. University of Missouri-Columbia. Washington, DC. March 16-17, 2000. Proceedings published in First Monday, Volume 5, Number 6 (June 5, 2000). These highlight various digital collections, building networked infrastructures, digital library users, standard developement in digital library management, interoperability, and preservation. Full-text available at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/index.html

Digitization Project Guides Index
 

Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice.  (AHDS Guides to Good Practice).  http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide/contents.html

Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. (AHDS Guides to Good Practice). http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating

Creating a Viable Scholarly Resource. Arts and Humanities Data Service. http://ahds.ac.uk/viable.htm

Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents (AHDS Guides to Good Practice)  Http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html

Digital Historical Collections: Types, Elements, and Construction.  Carl Fleischhauer. August 21, 1996.  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/elements.html

Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet.1998.  Stephen E. Ostrow.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/ostrow/pub71.html

"A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections". Institute of Museum and Library Services. http://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm

Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations. July 1999.  Anne R. Kenney & Louis H. Sharpe II, with Barbara Berger, Rick Crowhurst, D. Michael Ott, and Allen Quirk.  (Report to the Library of Congress Preservation Directorate, Contract #IN97C-22/97CLCCT7021) http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/illbk/ibs.htm

Images Online: Perspectives on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), Volume 2. Edited by Christie Stephenson and Patricia McClung. Highlights classroom and student use of digital materials, facilitation of access to these materials, how institutions were affected by integration of digital materials, and legal issues. http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/images.html

Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case: Collections Effectively leveraging rich document formats for the WWW. John Price-Wilkin. Discusses the creation of web materials from non-html sources. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/ (resource URL shortened)

New Opportunities Fund (NOF) - Digitise. http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/digitise.asp

"Questions to Ask Before Starting a Digitization Project". From the Colorado Digitization Program. http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction (resource URL shortened)

A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections.  1998.  Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein.  Provides recommendations for long-term digital preservation and includes six case studies.  www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/framework/framework.html

Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files. Gail Hodge. April 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html

Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects.  Prepared by the Image Quality Working Group of ArchivesCom, a joint Libraries/AcIS committee.  1997.  www.columbia.edu/acis/dl/imagespec.html

Turning Pages Within a Digital Reproduction. National Digital Library Program. Discusses page turner interface used in the American Memory Collection. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/page-turning.html 

Digitization Project Resources and Best Practices Index
 

ARL Digital Initiative Database (DID) Project Page. This is "a Web-based registry for descriptions of digital initiatives in or involving libraries. The goal of the effort is to capture basic information for a wide range of digital initiatives.... The database provides access to initiatives underway highlighting technical features, policy choices, and subject matter of the content." http://www.arl.org/did/

Berkeley SunSITE's Image and Multimedia Database Resources includes links to information on digital imaging, metadata, image capture and compression, image quality and conservation, and cost issues.  It also includes links to image databases and research papers.  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases

CoOL: Conservation Online.  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu

Creating Digital Audio Resources - A Guide to Good Practice. Provided by the Performing Arts Data Service. http://appserver.pads.arts.gla.ac.uk/ (resource URL shortened)

Creating Digital Performance Resources - Guide to Good Practices. Provided by the Performing Arts Data Service (PADS). http://appserver.pads.arts.gla.ac.uk/ (resource URL shortened)

Digital Library Federation Publications, Working Papers, Reports, and Other Digital Library Information Resources. http://www.diglib.org/publications.htm

The Digital Library Toolkit, 3rd edition.  Dr. Peter Noerr. 105 page .pdf document.  http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/ (resource URL shortened)

Digitization Resources. Colorado Digitization Program.  http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/index.html

Directory of Information Sources on Scientific Research Related to the Preservation of Sound Recordings, Still and Moving Images and Magnetic Tape.  Compiled by Dr. Margaret S. Child, September 1993.  Commission on Preservation and Access.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/child/child.html

Image Database Bibliography.  Howard Besser.  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/Bibliography

Kodak Digital Learning Center. Includes online courses.  http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/index.jhtml

The Library of Congress Standards. Links to information on various standards. http://www.loc.gov/standards/

Library Issues: Digital Libraries. Bibliography of articles pertaining to digital libraries. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/lbdiglib.htm

Links to Digitisation Resources and Sites. HATII Digitisation Summer School 2000. http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SumProg/DigiSS03/URLs.htm

PADI: Preserving Access to Digital Information.  "Subject gateway to digital preservation resources."  http://nla.gov.au/padi

Documents relating to digitization efforts at the Library of Congress, American Memory Project.  Background papers and technical information. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Resources.  76 pages.  Steven Ketchpel.  http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/ (resource URL shortened)

Mappa Mundi.  Information of interest to the web developing community. http://mappa.mundi.net/

"Digitization - the issues, projects and technology: a selective bibliography". National Library of Canada. Bibliography relevant to digitization, provided by the National Library of Canada.  At http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/6/7/s7-1010-e.html the annotations are in French.  (I'm sure there's an English version, and I will provide it here when I find it.)

Library HQ. Extensive site includes links to new book titles in information technology, automation sources, many other resources. http://www.libraryhq.com/

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information. Takes a few minutes to learn how to use this, but very handy. http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM

Links to many online documents and resources can be found at both palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging and palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/electronic-records

Visual materials bibliography.  palimpsest.stanford.edu./byauth/pearce-moses/vismat.html
 

Digitization Projects Index

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

American Orchid Society: Digital Orchid Library Project, Draft Plan

Australian Digitization Projects. http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/digitisation/

Archives of Maryland Online. The legal history of Maryland from 1634 to the present. Their goal is to put 1 million pages online for $1 million over a ten year period. http://www.archivesofmaryland.net

California Heritage Collection. Well-designed web site. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/digital.html

Clearinghouse of Image Databases.  Directory of image databases worldwide, indexed by institution and media type. www.library.arizona.edu/images/image_projects.html

Colorado Digitization Program.  http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org

Computerization of the Archivo General de Indias: Strategies and Results.  Pedro Gonzalez.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998. Discusses many of the issues involved in a digitization project.  Bibliography included. www.clir.org/pubs/reports/gonzalez/contents.html

Computerization Project of the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.  A report to the Commission on Preservation and Access. www.clir.org/pubs/reports/archivo/archivo.html

CSS Alabama Digital Collection.  http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/digital/cssala/main.shtml

Digital Atheneum Project.  Research in digital restoration of manuscripts, searching manuscript collections, and editing collections. Emphasis is on humanities collections.  http://www.digitalatheneum.org

The Digital Classroom.  Encourages the use of primary materials from the National Archives and Records Administration in the Classroom. www.nara.gov/education/classrm.html

Digital Collections Inventory Report.  Patricia A. McClung.  Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington, DC; Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC.  1996.  Worldwide directory of major projects and contacts.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/mcclung/index.html

Digital Library Program at Indiana University. Collections include the Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection, the Victorian Women Writers Project, and Dido Image Bank (images from the fine arts slide library). http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/

Digital Memories. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections. Highlights items from their collections, and changes regularly. http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/dm/dgtlcurr.htm

Digital Library Research and Development: SunSITE Hosted Projects. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D/

The Digital Scriptorium.  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium

Documenting the American South.  Well-designed web site. http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

Florida International University - Digital Collections.  http://library.fiu.edu/about/librcntrscoll.html#digital

The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996. University of North Texas. Site includes video of pop-ups in action. http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup/default.asp

Gutenberg Digital. Goettingen State and University Library. This is a "pre-version", so the site is now mostly in German. However, the web site provides a description of the project in English, and the images speak for themselves. http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/

Historic Pittsburgh Project.  (full-text books included) http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/

The Internet Moving Images Archive.  http://www.archive.org/movies/movies.php

The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections & Services. General Libraries at Emory University. http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/
New Resources and Collections at the Beck Center: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/new.html

Making of America.  http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Manuscript Digitization Demonstration Project.  A project set up to determine how to digitize large manuscript collections.  Particularly relevant for collections of 20th century typescripts. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/mddp3tc.htm

Sitio Conte, Panama, 1940.  University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives.  Materials from an archaeological expedition, including maps, photos, and manuscripts.  Well-designed site.  http://www.museum.upenn.edu/SitioConte/index.html

Southern Changes Online, Past issues of the Southern Regional Council's Journal. http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/schanges/ (resource URL shortened)

Special Collections Digital Center (University of Virginia).  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War.  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

The William Blake Archive.  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/

William Gedney: Photographs & Writings.  (Duke University)  Nice-looking site.  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/  

Digitization Projects -- Maps & Other Large Formats Index

David Rumsey Collection. "Focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials" and uses MrSid image compression software. http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Bland County History Archives.  Maintained by students at Rocky Gap High School in Virginia.  Contains some full transcripts and some oral history excerpts.  http://www.bland.k12.va.us/bland/rocky/gap.html

Chicago Architects Oral History Project.  Nice-looking site.  Some transcript excerpts.  http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/dept_architecture/oralhistory.html

Hogan Jazz Archive. Oral History Index.  (Tulane)  http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/OralHistoryIntroduction.html

Library of American Broadcasting.  University of Maryland.  Still under construction, but looks interesting so far.  http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/

National Gallery of the Spoken Word.  http://www.ngsw.msu.edu/app.html

Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943). Part of the American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/

Oral History at the Billy Graham Center Archives.  Some transcripts available online.  http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/oralhist.html

Oral History Online!  UC Berkeley Library. Hierarchical presentation of oral histories (similar to Hyperion).  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/

Oral History Research Office at Columbia University.  Holding lists and descriptions.  http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/oral/

PMC Project P/FRA (Future Radio Archives). European Broadcasting Union. http://www.ebu.ch/departments/technical/pmc/pmc_fra.html

"The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles, and Preservation Strategy". International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa0013.htm

Social Security Administration's Oral History Collection.  Some transcripts have links to photographs, other histories, and sound clips. http://www.ssa.gov/history/orallist.html

Southern Oral History Program.  http://www.sohp.org/

Stonington Fishing Oral History Project.  Mystic Seaport.  Provides information about the project.  http://www.mysticseaport.org/research/ro-stonfishintro.htm

T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History.  (LSU Libraries, Special Collections) http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/oh/index.html

The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968. Joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/

USM Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.  http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory/index.html

EAD (see also Metadata) Index

Catalogues of manuscripts and letters, encoded in XML using EAD http://www.hit.uib.no/malvine/EADpage.html

Cornell Institute for Digital Collections: EAD/XML finding aids project http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/xml/

Digital Finding Aids at Harvard. Includes background information about EAD implementation. http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/oasis/doc.html#markup

EAD Converter (converts to XML or SGML) http://helmer.hit.uib.no/malvine/EADconverter.html

EAD Help Pages - EAD Sites Annotated. Lists places where EAD is being implemented and links to brief information about these projects. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/sitesann.html

EAD Help Pages home page. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead

EAD Help Pages - Overview. Indexes EAD information by steps in the process.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/sitesann-index.html

EAD at UC Berkeley. http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/ead

Encoded Archival Description Finding Aids at the Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/ead/eadhome.html

Encoded Archival Description at Duke University. http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/findaids/ead

Encoded Archival Description Official Web Site. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

Encoded Archival Description Reference Page. Links to other sites using EAD.
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/ead.html

The Library of Congress Standards. Links to information on various standards, including EAD and "digital library standards". http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/standard.html

Papers and documents related to EAD. Includes "The EAD Retrospective Conversion Guidelines: A Supplement to the EAD Tag Library and EAD Guidelines". This is a 51-page PDF file. Also, has a link to "EAD Tag Library and EAD Guidelines". http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ead/pap_doc.html

RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description. Guidelines developed by the RLG EAD Advisory Group. http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/bpg.pdf

RLG EAD Support Site. Includes RLG recommended application guidelines for EAD.
http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/

Equipment/Software Information Index

The Eye of Photoshop. Tutorials for beginning, intermediate, and advanced. http://www.aquariumsoftware.com.au/photoshop/

Macromedia. Information on Dreamweaver web development software, as well as other products. http://www.macromedia.com

Hyperion Information.  http://www.sirsi.org/Sirsiproducts/hyperion.html

Hewlett Packard Information.  http://www.hp.com/ghp/products.html

Funding Possibilities Index

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Private foundation that provides funding for projects for art conservation research and training as well as for the digitization of library and archival materials. http://www.mellon.org/

Colorado Digitization Program Funding Sources. Identifies public/federal sources, associations and organizations, private foundations, and information resources. http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/funding/rsrc_funding.html

Community of Scholars database.  http://www.cos.com

Finding Funding for Your Project.  A listing of grants and financial support for digitization projects.  www.normicro.com/grantinfo.htm

The Foundation Center. Requires a paid subscription if using the online version, may be available at a local public library. http://www.foundationcenter.org/

Funding and Grant Sources for Librarians. http://www.libraryhq.com/funding.html

Getty Grant Program.  http://www.getty.edu/grants/index.html

Institute of Museum and Library Services. http://www.imls.gov

National Archives and Records Administration.  What We Fund. http://www.archives.gov/

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). http://www.nea.gov/

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). http://www.neh.gov

National Hisotrical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). http://www.archives.gov/grants/index.html 

General Information Index  

Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. Jeff Rothenberg.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, January 1998.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html

Digital Library Initiatives. National Library of Australia. http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/diglibs.html

Digitization as a Method of Preservation.  Hartmut Weber and Marianne Dorr.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, Oct. 1997. www.clir.org/pubs/reports/digpres/digpres.html 

Digitizing the Collections: LISWA'S strategic directions "Western Stories". http://www.nla.gov.au/niac/meetings/liswa.html

Digitization for Scholarly Use.  Nicole Bouche.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, March 1999.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub81-bouche/pub81text.html

Links to Digitisation Resources and Sites. DCHP (Digitization for Cultural Heritage and Information Professionals. http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/links.html

Links to Digitisation Resources and Sites. HATII Digitisation Summer School. http://wwwstu.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SumProg/ (resource URL shortened)

Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations.  Research Libraries Group, 1996.  www.rlg.org/ArchTF

Publications Office of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlaign. http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/

Researching Librarian. http://www.researchinglibrarian.com/editorial.htm

Where is the Digital Library? http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.html

Why Digitize? Abby Smith.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, February 1999.  www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html  

Glossaries/Dictionaries Index

Colorado Digitization Program - Digitization Glossary.  http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction/ (resource URL shortened)

Northern Micrographics: Glossary of Imaging Terms.  www.normicro.com/glossary.htm

TechEncyclopedia. TechWeb: The Business Technology Network. http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

What is?com. http://whatis.techtarget.com/

Image Quality and Evaluation Index  

Digital Image Quality: From Conversion to Presentation and Beyond.  1997.  Paper presented at the Conference on Scholarly Communication and Technology (Atlanta, GA, April 24-25, 1997. Presents ways to balance quality, costs, timeliness, user requirements, and technological capabilities in digitization efforts (i.e., digital benchmarking). www.arl.org/scomm/scat/kenney.html

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Digital Library Federation, July 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/

Quality Review of Document Images: Internal Training Guide. (From the National Digital Library Program.)  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/docimqr.html

Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats.  James M. Reilly and Franziska S. Frey. A 40-page PDF version of the report can be accessed from here.  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html

Imaging Issues Index

Digitization Issues for Academic Archives.   http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/Fall95papers/rachel.html

Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database.  Information on compression, selecting scanners, quality control, security policy and procedures, technical standards, etc.  http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/introimages/ 

Journals and other serials Index

The Abbey Newsletter.  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/an/index.html

Ariadne.  www.ariadne.ac.uk

CLIR Issues.  Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues.html

Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter.  Published from 1988-1997.  January - December 1997 may be of particular interest, since those issues address "Ensuring Access to the Accumulated Human Record as Far into the Future as Possible".  http://www.clir.org/pubs/cpanews/cpanews.html

Conservation.  (Getty Institute Conservation Newsletter.) http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/newsletter.html

Cultivate Interactive. Online journal launched in July 2000 and intended for European cultural heritage professionals. Looks like it will deal with digital library issues. http://www.cultivate-int.org/

Current Cites. University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/

Digital Camera. (Guide to electronic photography and imaging.) http://www.digicamera.com/

Digital Libraries.  http://www.dlib.org

Digital Library Newsletter (of IEEE).  http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln

Digital Web Magazine. http://www.digital-web.com/

Dr. Dobb's Journal. http://www.webreview.com/ddj/

EDUCAUSE Quarterly: Tranforming Education Through Information Technology. http://www.educause.edu/pub/ce/

E-JASL. The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship. http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org

eSpectra.  The online newsletter of the Museum Computer Network.  http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

First Monday. One of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet. Focuses on issues of academic publishing and the World Wide Web. http://www.firstmonday.org

ICSTI Forum.  Quarterly newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information.  http://www.icsti.org/icsti/forum

iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts.  www.cisp.org/imp

International Journal on Digital Libraries.  http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799

JASIS (Journal of the American Society for Information Science) www.asis.org/publications/JASIS/tocs.html

JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

Journal for Multi-Media History.  http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/masthead.html

Journal of Digital Information.  "Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk  Special theme of "digital libraries" can be found at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/View/Threads/Digital_libraries

Library Journal.  http://www.ljdigital.com/index.asp

National Digital Library Periodic Reports.  Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ndl/per.html

Online Photography Magazines from North America.  Links to many photo magazines online.  http://www.acecam.com/fotomags.html

Oral History Review. http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/ohr/

PEI (Photo Electronic Imaging).  Articles, tutorials, book reviews, etc.
http://www.peimag.com/site_central.htm

Preservation and Access International Newsletter.  http://www.clir.org/pubs/pain/pain.html

Public-Access Computer Systems Review. The University of Houston. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/pacsrev.html

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

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Compiled and maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Adobe: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf

Listservs Index

Archives listserv.  From this page you can search the messages on the list to find any information you might need.  http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

DIGLIB. For digital library researchers and librarians. http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm

DigLibns. Discussion related to digital libraries and librarianship that was shut down in May 2000. However, the discussion archives may be accessed from here: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/DigLibns/

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Electronic List. http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadlist.html

IMAGELIB. Instructions for subscribing and accessing the archives may be found at: http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=imagelib&A=1

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resources. Gives a lot of good general information about listservs. http://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm

Padiforum. Deals with digital preservation issues. http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/forum/

Management of Images/Documents Index

Guide for Managing Electronic Records from an Archival Perspective. http://www.ica.org/biblio/cer/guide_eng.html

Managing Digital Collections: AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices.  1998.  N. Beagrie & D. Greenstein.  Arts & Humanities Data Service.  http://www.ahds.ac.uk/policies.htm (Document is available from this link as a Word or PDF document)

Several articles used for a UCLA extension course in document management are available from http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.html

Metadata Index

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Home Page.  http://purl.org/DC
Links to Guides to Best Practice and various incarnations of the Dublin Core Element Set.

July 1999 version of the Dublin Core Elements.  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/07clips.html#WEIBEL

Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk. Library of Congress. Maps Dublin Core to MARC and GILS attributes. http://www.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html

Dublin Core Element Set Crosswalk. Monticello Electronic Library. Maps Dublin Core with the descriptive schemes of Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Government Information Locator Services (GILS), and USMARC.(Appendix 3) http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/arr/1996/mont.htm

Metadata: Working Bibliography. NHPRC. U.S. INTERPARES Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems). http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/us-interpares/bibliography (resource URL shortened)

Metadata for Digital Preservation: The Cedars Project Outline Specification. Metadata that includes descriptive, administrative, technical, and legal information, geared towards long-term preservation of digital materials. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/OutlineSpec.htm

A User Guide for Simple Dublin Core.  http://purl.oclc.org/dc/documents/working_drafts/wd-guide-current.htm

Guidelines for extending the use of Dublin Core elements to create a generic application integrating all kinds of information resources. http://lyra.rlg.org/metawg.html

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information.  Gives particular emphasis to metadata as it relates to cultural heritage information.  http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards (resource URL shortened)

Online Exhibits Index

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present.  http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons. Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm

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

Online Exhibits.  A list of online exhibits at Fondren Library (Rice University), as well as other institutions.  http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Exhibits/

Oregon State University Archives Exhibits.  http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/exhibits/index.html

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

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911.  An online exhibit that includes audio, photographs, political cartoons, newspaper clippings, etc.  http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

Organizations Index

American Association of Museums.  http://www.aam-us.org/

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. http://aic.stanford.edu/

American Library Association.  www.ala.org

American Society for Information Science. www.asis.org

Archives & Museum Informatics.  www.archimuse.com

Art Libraries Society of North America.  www.arlisna.org

Aslib, The Association for Information Management.  www.aslib.co.uk

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  www.acm.org

Association for Information and Image Management International. www.aiim.org

Association of College and Research Libraries.  www.ala.org/acrl

Association of Research Libraries.  www.arl.org

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies.  "Offers mid-career training for those in the museum, library, archives, and historic preservation fields."  www.campbellcenter.org

Coalition for Networked Information. http://www.cni.org/

Computers and the History of Art. (CHART) http://www.chart.ac.uk/index.html

Commission on Preservation and Access.  http://www.clir.org/pubs/cpanews/cpanews.html

Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information. www.cimi.org

Council for Library and Information Resources.  www.clir.org

Digital Library Federation.  http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm

European Preservation Information Centre (EPIC).  www.knaw.nl/ecpa

Getty Conservation Institute.  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/institute/index.html

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  www.imls.gov

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. http://www.iasa-web.org/

International Council for Scientific and Technical Information. http://www.icsti.org/icsti

International Council on Archives.  http://www.ica.org/

International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions. www.ifla.org

Mississippi Library Association. http://www.misslib.org/

Mississippi Museum Association. http://www.missmuseum.org/

Museum Computer Network.  www.mcn.edu

National Information Standards Organization.  www.niso.org

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). www.ninch.org

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC).  http://www.nedcc.org

Oral History Association.  http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/

Research Libraries Group.  www.rlg.org

Society of American Archivists.  www.archivists.org

Society of Mississippi Archivists.  http://www.lib.usm.edu/~smainfo/

SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network).  www.solinet.net

Special Libraries Association.  www.sla.org

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)  http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/

Visual Resources Association.  http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html

W3C: World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/ 

Policies Index

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE collection policy.  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Admin/collection.html

Colorado Digitization Program. Collection Policy. Defines the guiding principles of the program, the audience, subject matter and participants. http://www.cdpheritage.org/about/policy_collection.html

National Library of Australia Digitisation Policy 2000 – 2004. http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digitisation.html

Preservation of Digital Information Index

Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach. Gail Hodge. D-Lib Magazine 6:1 (June 2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html

Broadcast Wave Format, Version 1. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). http://www.ebu.ch/departments/technical/ (resource URL shortened)

Carrying Authentic, Understandable and Usable Digital Records Through Time.   (Report to the Dutch National Archives and the Ministry of Interior).  Jeff Rothenberg & Tora Bikson.  RAND-Europe, August 6, 1999.  http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/ (resource URL shortened)

The Cedars Project. Information on metadata and long-term preservation of digital materials. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/index.htm

Collection Based Persistent Digital Archives. Reagan Moore et al. D-Lib Magazine 6:3&4.
Part 1: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/moore/03moore-pt1.html
Part 2: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/moore/04moore-pt2.html

Computerization of the Archivo General de Indias: Strategies and Results.  Pedro Gonzalez.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998. Discusses many of the issues involved in a digitization project.  Bibliography included. www.clir.org/pubs/reports/gonzalez/contents.html

Conservation OnLine (CoOL). http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). http://wwwclassic.ccsds.org/documents/ (148 page document;resource URL shortened)

Content-based Image Retrieval: A report to the JISC Technology Applications Programme. J. P. Eakins and M. E. Graham, 1999. (Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle). http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir/report.html

Creating Permanent and Durable Information: Physical Media and Storage Standards. S. Publia, 1999. CRM: Cultural Resource Management 22(2), 25-27. http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf

"Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell." http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/care/record.html

Digital Electronic Archiving: The State of the Art & the State of the Practice.  Can be accessed from http://www.icsti.org/99ga/

Digital Preservation. AHDS: Arts and Humanities Data Service. http://ahds.ac.uk/digital.htm

Digital Preservation Guidelines.  Available for downloading in PDF format from http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/study.html (Currently unavailable, as site is being reorganized)

Digitisation as a Method of Preservation. H. Weber and M. Dorr, 1997. European Commission on Preservation and Access. http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/PUBL/weber.html

Ebind http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Ebind/

"Film and Sound ARchives". Society of Archivists (United Kingdom). http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk/fsg/principles.htm

LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-100.html

Management, Appraisal and Preservation of Electronic Records. UK Public Records Office. http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/erecords/guidelines/default.htm

OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art. January 31, 2001. http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/presmeta_wp.pdf

PANDORA: Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html

Preservation of Digital Information: A bibliography. Michael Day. http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lismd/preservation.html

Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook.

Preservation Resources. Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Preservation/

Preservation Resources Web Site (OCLC). http://www.oclc.org/oclc/presres/index.htm

Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations.  1996.  The Research Libraries Group and the Commission on Preservation and Access.  http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/index.html

Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social Science Date and Metadata.  Ann Green, JoAnn Dionne, and Martin Dennis.  Council on Library and Information Resources, June 1999.  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub83/contents.html or www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub83/pub83.pdf (53-page PDF document)

RLG Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata, 1998. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html

"Selected Readings in Moving Image and Sound Recording Preservation. Society of American Archivists (SAA). http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/saapreserv/text/magnet.htm

"Selected Readings in Reformatting and Imaging". Society of American Archivists (SAA). http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/saapreserv/text/reform.htm

Scanning Index

Basic Scanning for the Web. Charles Bearden. http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj_3/scanning.html

General Guidelines for Scanning. Colorado Digitization Program. http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/scanning/std_scanning.htm

Scantips.com. Basic scanning tips provided by Wayne Fulton. http://www.scantips.com/

Procedures and Practices for Scanning. Howard Besser. CHIN, 199? Simplified explanations of scanning procedures, equipment, image storage, image quality, and image description.  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/Scanning

Selection Index

Guidance for selecting materials for digitisation. Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College, London. Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference, Guidelines for Digital Imaging. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html

Guidelines for Digital Imaging, 28-30 September 1998. Selection Criteria, Guidelines, Decision-Making Aids. Provided by the joint RLG and NPO Preservation Converence. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/selection.html

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, Part 2: Selection. Cornell University. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/ (resource URL shortened)

Policies, Strategies, and Guidelines. Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI). http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/format/policy.html

Selecting Research Collections for Digitization.  Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill Oldham.  Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, August 1998. (Can also be found in Microform and Imaging Review, v. 27 no 3, p. 82-93.)  Provides an overview of the decisions involved in digitizing research library collections. www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html

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

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

SGML/XML Resources http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/sgml/

What is XML? An overview provided by Quark Incorporated. http://www.quark.com/products/avenue/xml.html

XML.com at http://www.xml.com

Hunt's Photo Supply, Inc.  http://members.tripod.com/huntsphoto/index.htm

Training Resources Index

Appendix E: Digitization Methods, by Stuart D. Lee, March 1999. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/digitization.html

Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Colorado Digitization Program: Workshops. http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/workshops/index.html

Digitisation Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals. Hosted by the Humanities Advanced Technology Information Institute (HATII). http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SumProg/DigiSS03/

Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals: An Intensive Program. Provided by the joint efforts of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), the University of Glasgow, and Fondren Library, Rice University. http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/

Illinois Digitization Institute. Lis of free one-day workshops on the fundamentals of digitization. http://nautilus.outreach.uiuc.edu/Idi/workshop.asp

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, Chapter 10, Continuing Education. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/ (resource URL shortened)

Professional Development. School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. This site sometimes contains information about professional development opportunities in the field of Information Science. http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/resources/development.html

RLG Tools for Digital Imaging. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RLGtools.html

RIT Training Update. List of training opportunities available from the Rochester Institute of Technology. www.training.rit.edu/calendar.html

Web Resource Selection & Evaluation Index

Evaluation of information sources. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm

Professional Website Usability - 5 Part Series. by Lauren Kirby. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/223

Selection criteria for quality controlled information gateways. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/quality/toc.html

Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Available to All. Barbara T. Mates. http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Publications/Books/ (resource URL shortened)

Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

Article Central. Links to lots of articles dealing with web development. http://www.articlecentral.com/

The Browser-Safe Color Palette. Lynda Weinman. Colors that work cross-platform. http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

HTML Goodies. Lots of free html and javascript, along with other goodies. http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/

The Javascript Source. http://javascript.internet.com/

Moving Online: Crossing the Digital Divide. Smithsonian Institution. http://museumstudies.si.edu/movingon/

Review: Source Code Library 2000. http://www.newmedia.com/nm-ie.asp?articleID=2805

Site See Analysis. Offers free analysis of search engine ability to find your site. http://www.site-see.com/ss/free.htm

Tracking Your Visitors.  Bill Winett.  April 1998. http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/16/

Usable Web: 754 links about web usability.  January 2000. http://usableweb.com/index.html

User-Centered Iterative Design for Digital Libraries: The Cypress Experience.   (DLIB Magazine, February 1996).  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february96/02vanhouse.html

Web Developer's Virtual Library. http://www.wdvl.com/

Webmaster Resources.  http://www.webmaster-resources.com/

Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource.  Great resource, with a subject search function.  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Web Reference.  http://webreference.com/index2.html

Yale Style Manual for web site construction. Very comprehensive. http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Web Site Design -- Graphics and Fonts Index

3-D Animation Workshop. http://www.webreference.com/3d/

CoolText.Com.  Online graphics generator.  http://www.cooltext.com/

Hands On. Short tutorials on various graphics skills. http://www.ozones.com/handson/

IQauto.  Online graphics generator.  http://www.iqauto.com/

Media Builder: Button maker.  Turns any .gif into a button. http://www.ButtonMaker.com/

Webmaster Resources: Graphics and Fonts.  http://www.webmaster-resources.com/resources/graphicsfonts.shtml