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LINKS TO DIGITIZATION RESOURCES AND SITES
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Archives
- Archivo General
de Indias, located in Seville, Spain - important
repository of documents on the discovery, exploration, and administration
of the Americas by the Spaniards
- ARKive : Bristol
http://arkive.uwe.ac.uk/
- Blake - William Blake
Archive http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html

- Bodleian Library Broadside
Ballads http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
- Beazley Archive,
Oxford University
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/Script2/default.htm (Based
on the original archive of photographs (c.250,000), notes, drawings
and books relating to ancient Greek art of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970),
it was acquired by the University in the 1960's, and has been catalogued
and greatly expanded since then. Includes the Pottery Database of Athenian
figure-decorated vases of the 7th-4th centuries BC, as well as
IT projects on other aspects of classical art)

- COLLAGE http://collage.nhil.com
20,000 Images from the London Metropolitan Archives
- Duderstadt Municipal
Archive project, Germany http://www.archive.geschichte.mpg.de/duderstadt/dud-e.htm
- joint project with the Max-Planck-Institut
für Geschichte in Göttingen, between 1996 and 1999, use of grey-scale
images to digitise the entire archives of a small German town
- English Episcopal Acta
Database www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/eea.html
(By publishing the output of the bishops chanceries, this series
sheds light on the development of administrative and legal practice
in the medieval Church. Innovations and changes in the underlying principles
of ecclesiastical government can only be detected by studying the diplomatic
form)
- Glasgow University Archives
and Business Record Centre http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/default.html
- InfoNORTH Virtually New
- Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation Projects
in Local Authorities, Libraries and Archives http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/intro.html
- Lincolnshire Archives
- England - http://www.lincs-archives.com/
- Museum of Victoria Photographic
Archive Project, Australia http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/Scitech/pap.html
- Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

- Public Record Office
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
- Whistler Centre
- The Correspondence Project http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/

Libraries
- Alexandria: A digital library for geographically-referenced
materials http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu
- American Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
- American Memory from the Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
- Berkeley Digital Library
Sunsite http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging

- Bibliothèque Nationale de France http://www.bnf.fr/
- Digitisation of Library Materials:
Report of the Concentration Meeting & Workshop Luxembourg, 14.12.99
http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/digit.pdf
- Bowes Museum http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk

- British Library www.bl.uk
- Columbia University Libraries - Oversized Color Images Project:
Addressing Issues of Preservation and Access http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/

- Cornell University Library Dept. of Preservation and Conservation
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) http://www.clir.org/
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs - British Academy John Foxe Project
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/bajfp/index.html

- GUL Special Collections Home Page http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/index.html
- GU Special Collections Hill & Adamson Collection (site
in progress) http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/hillandadamson/home.html

- Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
- An eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) Project by the Universities
of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
- JSTOR project http://www.jstor.org/
- LION - Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online, available
via GUL http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/Resources/Databases/index.html
(then click on LION) or direct at http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/
- Muse - Project
Muse, John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower
Library - initiative enabling worldwide networked access to
the full text of over 40 of the Press's scholarly journals. Supported
by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
- Museum
of Contemporary Art, San Diego http://www.mcasandiego.org/

- National Libraries Treasures of Europe http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/treasures/
- New York Public Library - Digital Library http://digital.nypl.org/
- RLG Research Libraries Group http://www.thames.rlg.org/toc.html
- Vatican Library materials - article "Toward on-line, worldwide
access to Vatican Library materials" http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
- Victoria State Library Multimedia Catalogue - paintings, sketches,
photographs, postcards http://slv950.slv.vic.gov.au/webpac-bin/wgbroker?07250011123361+-access+top.image#what
- Yale University Library Project "Open Book" http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pobweb.htm
- University of Virginia Special Collections
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/

Digitisation
of Arts and Heritage Assets (projects, institutions,
etc)
Funding
for Cultural Projects (often including digitisation and ICT applications)
Articles, Readings, and other things
- A Few Scanning Tips: a very useful site with some
good information for all levels http://scantips.com/
- Besser, Howard - Trant, Jennifer "Introduction to Imaging"
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover.html
- Chapman, S. et. al., 1997. 'Selection for Digitizing: A Decision
Making Matrix', May 1997 http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/digitization/matrix.html
- Columbia University Libraries - Oversized Color Images Project:
Addressing Issues of Preservation and Access http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/
- Columbia University Libraries, 1997. 'Selection Criteria for
Digital Imaging Projects' http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria
- Copyright Law in the Digital World - R. Baron article
http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm
- Day, M. 1997. 'Metadata for Preservation', CEDARS
Access Issues Working Group http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html
- Digital Watermarking Bibliography http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Graphics/watermarking.html
- Digital Watermarking: Safeguarding Digital Library
Contents and Users http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html
- Digitisation of Library Materials: Report of the Concentration
Meeting & Workshop,Luxembourg, 14.12.99 http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/digit.pdf
- EU DLM Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information
http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html
- ILEJ - papers on the project http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
- Image Permanence Institute - Recommendations for the Evaluation
of Digital Images http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html
- Kenney, A. R. 1998. 'Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration
Project 1994-1996 http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/com/comfin.html
- Kenney, A.R and Rieger, O.Y., 1998. 'Using Kodak Photo CD
Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists,
and Curators' http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/kodak-htm.htm
- Kiernan, K. `Digital Preservation, Restoration, and
Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts' http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
- Lee, S. 1999. Scoping the Future of the
University of Oxford’s Digital Library Collections. Final Report
of study funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Oxford, University
of Oxford’s Humanities Computing Unit, September 1999 http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/
- Library of Congress Manuscript
Digitisation Demonstration Project, Final Report by Sharpe, Louis, H.,
Ott, Michael D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998 http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf
- OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report (Dublin Core) http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
- Oppenheim, C. 1997, 'Copyright in the electronic age'.
UNESCO World Information Report. Unesco, Paris http://www.unesco.org/webworld/com_inf_reports/wirenglish/chap26.pdf
- Parry, D. 1998. Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection:
a review of digitisation projects in local authority libraries and archives.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/
- Puglia, S. 1999. 'Creating Permanent and Durable Information:
Physical Media and Storage Standards' http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf
- Research Library Group Working Group on Preservation Issues
of Metadata http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html
- Reilly, J.M., & Frey, F.S. 1996. Recommendations for the
Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic,
and Various Paper Formats http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html
- Schantz, H. F. 1996. 'Optical Character Recognition -- The
Mature Technology with the Brilliant Future' http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html
- Sharpe, Louis, H., Ott, Michael
D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998. Library of Congress Manuscript Digitisation
Demonstration Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf
- Smith, A.1999. 'Why Digitize?', Washington
D.C., Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html
- Structured Glossary of Technical Terms - Commission
for Preservation & Access http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/lynn/index.html
- Tanner, S., and Robinson, B.
1998. JISC Image Digitisation Initiative (JIDI): Feasibility
Study (Final Report) http://heds.herts.ac.uk/Guidance/JIDI_fs.pdf
- Thompson, C. 1997. 'OCR/ICR Accuracy and Acceptance - What
Does it Mean?' http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html
- Townsend, S., Chappell, C. &
Struijvé, O. 1999. 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
- Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials"
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
- VADS Metadata Workshop Report http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html
- Z39.50 Made Simple http://www.dstc.edu.au/DDU/projects/Z3950/zsimple.htm
Optical Music
Recognition http://www.ips.id.ethz.ch/~roth/omr.html
Journals
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