INLS 210-46

Digital Preservation and Access

 

Spring 2002

 


Helen R. Tibbo

 

Supplementary Readings to Accompany Sessions

 

 

 

1.       January 8:      The Digital Library and Cultural Heritage Repositories.

 

Arms, William. Digital Libraries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

 

CLIR. Collections, Content, and the Web. Washington, DC: CLIR, 2000.

 

Feeney, Mary, ed. Digital Culture: Maximising the Nation’s Investment. British Library, 1999. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other/jisc-npo-dig/intro.html.

 

Graham, Peter S. “New Roles for Special Collections on the Network.” College and Research Libraries 59 (May 1998): 232-39.

 

Graham, Peter S. “Requirements for the Digital Research Library.” College & Research Libraries 56 (July 1995): 331-39.

 

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues, and Challenges. The Hague, Netherlands: IFLA, 1998.

 

Jewell, Timothy D. “Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices.” Washington, D.C.: DLF, July 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/

 

Lehmann, Klaus-Dieter. Aking the Transitory Permanent: The Intellectual Heritage in a Digitized World of Knowledge.” Daedalus 125 (Fall 1996): 307-30.

 

Lesk, Michael. “Digital Libraries: A Unifying or Distributing Force?” Mellon Scholarly Communication and Technology Conference, April 24-25, 1997. http://www.arl.org/scomm/scat/lesk.html.

 

Lesk, Michael. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

 

Levy, David M. and Catherine C. Marshall. “Going Digital: A Look at Assumptions Underlying Digital Libraries.” Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 77-84.

 

Lyman, Peter. “Digital Documents and the Future of the Academic Community.” Mellon Scholarly Communication and Technology Conference, April 24-25, 1997. http://arl.cni.org/scomm/scat/lyman.html.

 

Lynch, Clifford A. “The Uncertain Future for Digital Visual Collections in the University.” Archives and Museum Informatics 11 (1997): 5-13.

 

Neff. Raymond K. “Multi-Institutional Cooperation: A New Consortial Model for Building Digital Libraries.”Mellon Conference on Scholarly Communication and Technology. 1997. http://www.arl.org/scomm/scat/neff.html.

 

Paviscak, Pamela, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry. Onformation Technology in Hunaiites Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges – The United States Focus. Occasional Paper No. 37, New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1997. http://www.acls.org/

 

Peters, Peter Paul. “Digital Libraries Are Much More Than Digitized Collections.” Educom Review (July/August)

 

Travica, Bob. “Organizational Aspects of the Virtual/Digital Library: A Survey of Academic Libraries.”

 

Unsworth, John. “Second-Generation Digital Resources in the Humanities.” DRH 2000, September 10, 2000, Sheffield. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/DRH2000.html.

 

1.      Introduction to Digital Imaging.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Introduction.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap1.html.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Bibliography.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap9.html.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Digitization – Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying..” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap3.html.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Glossary.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chapA.html.

 

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

 

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

 

Kenney, Anne R. “Guidelines vs. Guidance for Digital Imaging: The Opportunity Before Us.” Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference: Guidelines for Digital Imaging (September 1998). http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/joint/kenney.html.

 

Kenney, Anne R. & Stephen Chapman. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Ithaca, NY: Department of Preservation & Conservation, Chapter 1 & 151-160.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 3: “How Do You Digitize?” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 35-75..

 

2.      January 10:  Image Capture Practical.

 

Besser, Howard. “Procedures and Practices for Scanning.” http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/Scanning/

 

Bishoff, Liz. “California State Library Scanning Standards.” September 29, 1999.

 

Harvard University Library. Library Digital Initiative. “Image Reformatting.” http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/reformatting_image.html. 

 

Puglia, Steven. “NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access.” NARA, January 1998. http://www.nara.org/

 

Puglia, Steven. “Technical Primer,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.

 Sharpe, Lou. “Aspects of High-Speed Scanning.” Presentation for the NDLP. May 1995. LOC website.

 

Sharpe, Louis H. and D. Michael Ott. “Library of Congress Manuscript Digitization Demonstration Project. Final Report.” October 1998. LC website.

 

3.      January 15:  Digital Preservation & Longevity.

 

Anderson, U. 1997. Workshop on Electronic Archiving: An Evaluation of the Sesam Report. Stockholm: Swedish National Archives, Astra AB.

 

Atkinson, Ross W. “Selection for Preservation: A Materialistic Approach.” Library Resources and Technical Services30/4 (October/December 1986): 341-353.

 

Berthon, Hilary. “The Moving Frontier: Archiving, Preservation and Tomorrow’s Digital Heritage.” www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/hberthon2.html.

 

Besser, Howard. “IX. Digital Longevity,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.

 

-----. Digital Longevity (website). http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Longevity/

 

Bullock, Alison. “Preservation of Digital Information: Issues and Current Status.” (April 22, 1999). (Information Technology Services National Library of Canada). http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/publications/netnotes/notes60.html.

 

Child, Margaret S. “Further Thoughts on ‘Selection for Preservation: A Materialistic Approach.’” Library Resources and Technical Services 30/4 (October/December 1986): 354-362.

 

Cloonan, Michele V. “The W(h)ither Preservation?” Library Quarterly 71/2 (April 2001): 231-242.

 

Conway, Paul. “Archival Preservation: Definitions for Improving Education and Training.” Restaurator 10 (1989): 2, 47-60.

 

Conway, Paul. Preservation in the Digital World. Washington, DC: CPA, March 1996. http://www.clir.org/cpa/reports/conways/. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/index.html.

 

*Day, Michael. “Preservation of Electronic Information: A Bibliography.” Cedars Bibliography.

 

Ester, Michael. Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice. Washington, DC: CPA, 1996.

 

Fresko, M. “Digital Preservation: State of the Art November 1999 Update.” Consolidating the European Library Space DG Information Society Cultural Heritage Applications Unit, Luxembourg, 17th-19th November 1999. http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/events/fp4ce/speech/hs~cox.html.

 

Graham, Peter S. “Building the Digital Research Library: Preservation and Access at the Heart of Scholarship.” Follett Lecture Series, Organized by UKOLN for JISC. March 1997 http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/services/papers/follett/graham/paper.html.

 

Graham, Peter S. “Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind.” http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/cpaintpr.htm.

 

Granger, Stewart. “Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy.” D-Lib Magazine 6/10 (October 2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/granger/10granger.html.

 

Greenstein Daniel. “The Challenges of Preservation in Creating Digital Library Services.” CLIR Issues 15 (May/June 2000). http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues15.html.

 

Hedstrom, Margaret. “Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries. (1997). http://www.uky.edu/%7Ekiernan/DL/hedstrom.html.

 

Hedstrom, Margaret. Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions Mountain View, RLG, 1998.

 

Hedstrom, Margaret. “Research Issues in Migration and Long-Term Preservation.” Archives and Museum Informatics 11 (1997): 287-91. http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cerar/s5-mh.html.

 

Hendley, T. 1996. The Preservation of Digital Material (London: British Library Research and Development Department).

 

Jones, Maggie and Neil Beagrie. Preservation Management of Digital Materials. London: Re:source, 2000.

 

Kodak Corporation. Permanence, Care, and Handling of CDs. 1997. http://www.Kodak.com/daiHome/techInfo/permanence.shtml.

 

Levy, David M. “Heroic Measures: Reflections on the Possibility and Purpose of Digital Preservation.” Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, 1998, 152-161. http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/dl/276675/p152-levy/.

 

Lyman, Peter and Howard Besser. "Defining the Problem of our Vanishing Memory: Background, Current Status, Models for Resolution" in Margaret MacLean and Ben H. Davis, eds. Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, pp. 11-20, Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998. http://www.longnow.com/10klibrary/TimeBits Disc/tbpaper.html.

 

Lynch, Clifford. “The Integrity of Digital Information: Mechanics and Definitional Issues.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45 (December 1994): 737-44.

 

MacLean, Margaret and Ben H. Davis, eds. Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998.

 

Marcum, Deanne B. “Establishing Minimum Requirements for Archival Repositories.” CLIR Issues 15 (May/June 2000). http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues15.html.

 

Matthews, Graham, Alan Poulter, andEmma Blagg. “Preservation of Digital Materials Policy and Strategy Issues for the UK: Report of a Meeting Held at the British Library Research and Innovation Centre, London, 13th December 1996.” JISC/NPO Studies on the Preservation of Electronic Materials. BLRIC, 1997. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri041/digpres.html.

 

Mohlhenrich, Janice. Preservation of Electronic Formats: Electronic Formats for Preservation. Fort Atkinson, Wisc: Highsmith, 1993.

 

Rothenberg, Jeffrey. Avoiding Technological Quicksand. Washington, DC: CLIR, 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html.

 

Rothenberg, Jeffrey and T. Bikson. “Carrying Authentic, Understandable and Usable Digital Records Through Time.” Netherlands: RAND-Europe, August 1999. http://www.archief.nl/digiduur/

 

Russell, Kelly. “Digital Preservation and the Cedars Project Experience.” Preservation 2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials. 7/8 December 2000, York, England. http://www.rlg.ac.uk/events/pres-2000/russell.html.

 

Russell, Kelly. “Digital Preservation: Ensuring Access to Digital Materials Into the Future.” June 1999. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/Chapter.htm.

 

Sanders, Terry. Into the Future: Preservation of Information in the Electronic Age (16 mm film, 60 minutes). Santa Monica, CA: American Film Foundation, 1997.

 

Smith, Abby. The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries. Washington, DC: CLIR, 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub82/pub82text.html.

 

Smith, Abby. “Preservation in the Future Tense.” CLIR Issues #3, May/June 1998. Washington, DC: CLIR.

 

Van Bogart, John W. Magnetic tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives. Washington, DC: CPA, 1995.

 

Varlamoff, Marie-Theres and Sara Gould. “The Preservation of Digitised Collections: An Overview of Recent Progress and Persistent Challenges Worldwide.” March 2000. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/preservation_1.shtml.

 

Waters, Donald J. “Digital Preservation?” CLIR Issues (November/December 1998). http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues06.html.

 

Digital Archiving.

 

Beebe, Linda and Barbara Meyers. “The Unsettled State of Archiving.” JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4/4 (June 1999). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/beebe.html.

 

Bennet, John C. “A Framework of Data Types and Formats, and Issues Affecting the Long Term Preservation of Digital Material.” JISC/NPO Studies on the Preservation of Electronic Materials. British Library Research and Innovation Report 50. BLRIC, 1997.

 

DLM-Forum. Guidelines on Best Practices for Using Electronic Information: How to Deal with Machine-Readable Data and Electronic Documents. http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/dlm/documents/guidelines.html.

 

Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment. Washington, DC: CLIR, 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports

 

Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. and Philip B. Eppard. “Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES Project.” D-Lib Magazine 6-7/8 (July/August 2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/eppard/07eppard.html.

 

Haynes, David, et al. “Responsibility for Digital Archiving and Long Term Access to Digital Data.” JISC/NPO Studies on the Preservation of Electronic Materials. Boston Spa: JISC, 1997. http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/services/papers/jisc-npo67/digital-preservation.html.

 

Heminger, Alan R. and Steven B. Robertson. “Digital Rosetta Stone: A Conceptual Model for Maintaining Long-term Access to Digital Documents.”

 

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

 

Kahle, Brewster. “The Pretext Interview.” http://www.pretext.com/oct97/columns/interview.html.

 

Lyman, Peter & Brewster Kahle. “Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action.” D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1998). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/071lyman.html.

 

Lynch, Clifford. “Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management of Digital Information.” D-Lib Magazine 5/9 (September 1999). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/091lynch.html.

 

Moore, Reagan et al. ollection-Based Persistent Digital Archives – Part 1.” D-Lib Magazine 6/3 (March 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/moore/03moore-pt1.html.

 

Moore, Reagan et al. ollection-Based Persistent Digital Archives – Part 1.” D-Lib Magazine 6/3 (March 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/moore/04moore-pt2.html.

 

RLG-OCLC. “Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources.” Draft for Public Comment. Mountain View, Ca: RLG, August 2001.

 

Russell, Kelly and Derek Sergeant. “The Cedars Project: Implementing a Model for Distributed Digital Archives.” RLG DigiNews 3/3 (June 15, 1999). http://www.rlg.org/preserve/diginews/diginews3-3.html.

 

Waters, Donald J. “Choices in Digital Archiving: The American Experience.” The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community. http://tiepac.portlandpress.co.uk/books/online/tiepac/session5/ch6.html.

 

4.      January 17:  Image Enhancement Practical.

 

5.      January 22: Grant Writing.

 

6.      January 24:      Digitizing Photographs, Maps, and Microfilm.

 

Colet, L. S., Keller, K., and Landsbert, E. “Digiting Photographic Collections: A Case Study at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.” Spectra 25/2 (1997), 22-27.

 

Conway, Paul. “Selecting Microfilm for Digital Preservation: A Case Study from Project Open Book.” Library Resources and Technical Services 40/1 (1996): 67-77.

 

Conway, Paul. “Working with Microfilm,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.  

 

Frey, Franziska. “Working with Photographs,” ,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.

 

Gertz, Janet. “Digitization of Maps and Other Oversized Documents.” ,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm. 

 

Kenney, Anne R. “Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996. Final Report to the NEH.” http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/pub.htm.

 

Kenney, Anne R. “Digital-to-Microfilm Conversion: An Interim Preservation Solution.” LRTs 37/4 (199

 

Kenney, Anne R. and Louis H. Sharpe II. “Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations.” Report to the Library of Congress. July 1999.

 

7.      January 29: Why Digitize

 

Colorado Digitization Project. “Questions to Ask.” http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/question.html.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 1: “Where Do You Start? The Digitization Project.” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 1-9.

 

Levy, David M. “Heroic Measures: Reflections on the Possibility and Purpose of Digital Preservation.” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Digital Libraries, 1998. http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/dl/276675/p152-levy.

 

Weber, Hartmut and Marianne Dorr. “Digitization as a Means of Preservation?” Washington, DC: CPA & Amsterdam: ECPA, 1997.

 

7.      January 29: Project Planning & the Digitization Chain.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Document Analysis.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap2.html.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, Chapter 7:Summary. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap7.html.

 

Chapman, Stephen. “III. Considerations for Project Management,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/III.html. 

 

Colet, Linda S. “Planning an Imaging Project.” RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide1.html.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 4: “What Are the Next Steps? Preparation and Digitization” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 35-75..

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 5: “The Complete Life-Cycle of a Digital Imaging Project.” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 147-154.

 

North Carolina ECHO. Guide to Best Practices. “Introduction.” http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/selection.html.

 

North Carolina ECHO. Guide to Best Practices. “Planning and Selection.” http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/intro.html.

 

8.      January 31: Technical Infrastructure & Selecting a Scanner.

 

Digitizing Technologies for Preservation. ARL SPEC Kit 214. Washington, DC: ARL, March 1996.

 

Kenney, Anne R. & Stephen Chapman. “TechnicalOverview,” Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Ithaca, NY: Department of Preservation & Conservation, 47-98..

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 3: “How Do You Digitize?” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 35-75..

 

Williams, Don. “Selecting a Scanner.” Digital Library Federation Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide2.html

 

9.      February 5: Selection.

 

“Analyzing Selection Decisions: Three Experiences,” Part III in Selecting Library and Archive Collections for Digital Reformatting: Proceedings from an RLG Symposium,  November 4-5, 1995 in Washington, DC, edited by Ricky Erway. Mountain View, CA: RLG, 1996; 71-88.

 

Ayris, Paul. “Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation.” Joint RLG & NPO Preservation Conference, Warwick, England, September 28-30, 1998. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html.

 

Brancolini, Kristine R. “Selecting Research Collections for Digitization: Applying the Harvard Model,” Library Trends 48/3 (Spring 2000): 783-798.

 

Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, August 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/

 

Chapman, S. et al. “Selection for Digitization: A Decision Making Matrix.” May 1997. http://www.clir.org/cpa/reports/hazen/matrix.html; http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/digitization/matrix.html

 

Colorado Digitization Project. “Collection Policy Guidelines.” 1999. http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/select.html.

 

Gertz, Janet. “Selection Guidelines for Preservation.” Joint RLG & NPO Preservation Conference, Warwick, England, September 28-30, 1998. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/gertz.html.

 

Harvard University Library. Library Digital Initiative. “Selection Criteria for Digitizing Library Collections: Bibliography.” http://preserve.harvard.edu/bibliographies/selection.html.

 

Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, & Jan Merrill-Oldham. Selecting Research Collections for Digitisation. Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access, 1998. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 2: “What Are You Digitizing? Instigation, Selection, and Assessment.” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 10-34.

 

Menne-Haritz, Angelica and Nils Brubach. “The Intrinsic Value of Archive and Library Material. List of Criteria for Imaging and Textual Conversion for Preservation.” http://www.uni-marburg.de/archivschule/intrinsengl.html.

 

National Agriculture Library, “Selection Criteria and Guidelines.” http://www.nal.usda.gov:8300/projects/criteria.htm.

 

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

 

North Carolina ECHO. Guide to Best Practices. “Planning and Selection.” http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/selection.html.

 

Smith, Abby. Strategies for Building Digitized Collections. Washington, DC: DLF/CLIR, September 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/.

 

Ventress, Alan. “State Library of New South Wales Digitization Projects,” Microfilm & Imaging Review 25 (Fall 1996): 150-155.

 

Vogt-O’Connor, Diane. “IV. Selection of Materials for Scanning.”  Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/IV.html. 

 

10.   February 7: NCC Visit.

 

11.    February 12: Digitization of Textual Resources & OCR.

 

Harvard University Library. Library Digital Initiative. “Text Reformatting.” http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/reformatting_text.html.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 5: “Delivering Full Text.” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 136-138.

 

National Archives and Records Administration. NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access. http://www.nara.gov/nara/vision/eap/eapspec.html.

 

Robinson, Peter. The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources. Oxford: University of Oxford Office for Humanities Computing Services, August 1993.

 

12.   February 14: OCR Practical.

 

 

13.   February 19: Benchmarking.

 

Chapman, Stephen and Anne R. Kenney. “Digital Conversion of Research Library Materials: A Case for Full Informational Capture.” D-Lib Magazine (October 1996). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october96/cornell/10chapman.html.

 

D’Amato, Donald. “Imaging Systems: The Range of Factors Affecting Image Quality.” RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide3.html

 

Frey, Franziska. “Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards.” RLG DigiNews 1 (December 15, 1997): 1-7. http://rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html.

 

Frey, Franziska. “Measuring Quality of Digital Masters.” RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide4.html

 

Frey, Franziska. “File Formats for Digital Masters.” RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide5.html

 

Williams, Don. ”Image Quality Metrics.” RLG DigiNews 4/4 (August 15, 2000). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-4.html.

 

 

 

14.   February 21:  Benchmarking Practical.

 

 

15.   February 26: Metadata.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Documentation and Metadata.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap6.html.

 

Bearman, David. NISO/CLIR/RLG Technical Metadata for Images Workshop, April 18-19, 1999. http://www.niso.org/imagerpt.html.

 

Bishoff, Liz. “California State Library Metadata Standard.” September 29, 1999.

 

Cedars Project Team and UKOLN. “Metadata for Digital Preservation. The Cedars Project Outline Specification Draft for Public Consultation.” March 2000.

 

Colorado Digitization Project. “General Guidelines for Descriptive Metadata Creation and Entry.” 1999. http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/glines.html.

 

Day, Michael. “Metadata for Preservation.” CEDARS Access Issues Working Group (CEDARS Project Document AIW01) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html.

 

Day, Michael. “Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update.” Ariadne. 22 (December 1999): http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/metadata/.

 

Day, Michael. “Resource Discovery, Interoperability and Digital Preservation: Some Aspects of Current Metadata Research and Development.” VINE 117 (2000): 35-48. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/vine-117/.

 

Dempsey, Lorcan and Rachel Heery. Etadata: A Current Review of Practice and Issues.” Journal of Documentation 54 (March 1998): 145-72.

 

Harvard University Library. Library Digital Initiative. ”Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images.” 2000. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/metadata.html.

 

Kenney, Anne R. & Stephen Chapman. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Ithaca, NY: Department of Preservation & Conservation, 111-130. On reserve.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 5: “Cataloguing and Metadata.” New York:Neal-Schuman, 2001, 103-125.

 

Library of Congress. NDLP Internal Documentation. “Handle Server: Overview.” May 1998. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/handle-server.html.

 

Library of Congress. NDLP Internal Documentation. “Identifiers for Digital Resources.” August 1996. http://memory.loc.gov.8081/ammem/award/docs/identifiers.html.

 

NISO. NISO Draft Standard. Data Dictionary – Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images. Working Draft, 1.0. July 5, 2000.

 

OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. “Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art.” January 31, 2001. www.rlg.org/preserv/

 

Payette, Sandra. “Persistent Identifiers on the Digital Terrain.” RLG DigiNews 2/2  (April 15, 1998). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews22.html.

 

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

 

Rothenberg, Jeff. “Metadata to Support Data Quality and Longevity.” 1996. http://www.computer.org/conferences/meta96/rothenberg_Paper/ieee.data-quality.html.

 

Stone, Andy. “Review of Metadata for Digital Preservation, and General Digital Preservation Activities.” Cedars Bibliography. 1999. http://cedars.bodley.ac.uk/cedars/bibliog/as.cfm.

 

Table of Core Metadata Elements for Library of Congress Digital Repository Development. http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metable.html. & http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html.

 

US-InterPARES Project. “Metadata Bibliography.” http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/us-interpares/bib_meta.html.

 

16.   February 28: Metadata Practical.  (Audio Reformatting?)

 

Harvard University Library. Library Digital Initiative. ”Audio Reformatting.” http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/reformatting_audio.html.

 

 

17.   March 5: Image Management Systems.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 5: “Delivery Systems.” New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001, 126-135.

 

18.   March 7:

 

 

19.   March 19: Rights Management & Image Protection.

 

Berghel, H. and O'Gorman, L. “Protecting Ownership Rights through Digital Watermarking.” Computer July 29/7 (1996): 101-103, http://www1.acm.org:82/~hlb/publications/dig_wtr/dig_watr.html.

 

Colorado Digitization Project. “Legal Issues to Consider When Digitizing Collections.” 1999.  http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/legalissues.html.

 

“Copyright and Fair Use in Digital Environments: Challenges for the Educational Community.” ARL Newsletter 192 (June 1997): 1-15. Special issue.

 

Graham, Peter S. “Intellectual Preservation and Electronic Intelellectual Property.” http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/graham.txt.

 

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Chapter 5: “Copyright and Image Protection (Watermarking).” New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001, 129-144.

 

Levine, Melissa Smith, “V. Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization.” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/V.html. 

 

Oakley, Robert L. “Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution.” Washington, D.C.: CPA, September, 1990. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/oakley/index.html.

 

20.  March 21: Quality Control.

 

 

21.   March 26: Project & Risk Management & Vendors.

 

Colet, Linda S. “Planning an Imaging Project.” RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide1.html.

 

Lawrence, Gregory W. et al. Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation. Washington, D.C.: CLIR, 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports.

 

NINCH Working Group on Best Practices. “Evaluative Criteria.” (April 1999). http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-1.html.

 

Price, Laura and Abby Smith.Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective. Washington, DC: CLIR, 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/

 

“Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation.” RLG DigiNews 4/3 (June 15, 1999). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-3.html.

 

21.  March 26: Working with Vendors.

 

Gertz, Janet. “VIII. Vendor Relations.” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.  

 

 

22.  March 28: Project Costs.

 

Besser, Howard and Robert Yamashita, eds. “Chapter 2: The Cost of Creating Digital Images and Metadata by Museums.” In The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data (A Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Berkeley: UCB School of Information Management & Systems, 1998. (MESL Report)

 

Conway, Paul. “The Relationship Between Cost and Quality.”  NEDCC Manual.

 

Hendley, Tony. Comparison of Methods & Costs of Digital Preservation. British Library Research and Innovation Report 106. BLRIC, 1998.

 

Feeney, Mary, ed. Digital Culture: Maximising the Nation’s Investment. British Library, 1999. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other/jisc-npo-dig/intro.html. Chapter 5 is on costs.

 

 

23.  April 2: Project Costs Practical.

 

 

24.  April 4: Student Presentations of Exhibits.

 

 

25.  April 9: Text Encoding.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Markup: The Key to Reusability.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap4.html.

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “SGML/XML and TEI.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap5.html.

 

26.  April 11: Projects to Programs: Policies & Initiatives.

 

Beagrie, Neil and Daniel Greenstein. A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. July 14, 1998; Updated July 2001. http://ahds.ac.uk/

 

Greenstein, Daniel. “Creating Digital Library Services: Key Challenges.” CLIR Issues 14 (March/April 2000). http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues14.html.

 

Guthrie, Kevin. “Developing A Digital Preservation Strategy for JSTOR, An Interview with Kevin Guthrie. RLG DigiNews 4/4 (August 15, 2000). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-4.html.

 

Smith, Steven D. “Cooperative Imaging: Scans Well with Others,” ,” Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm.  

 

27.  April 16: Natasha Smith.

28.   

29.  April 18:

30.  April 23:

31.   April 25:

32.  April 30:

 

Arts & Humanities Data Service. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice, “Summary.” http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/chap7.html.

 

 

Kenney, Anne R. & Stephen Chapman. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Ithaca, NY: Department of Preservation & Conservation, 37-45; 151-160.

 

Access to Digital Materials.

 

Arms, Caroline R. “Getting the Picture: Observations from the Library of Congress on Providing Online Access to Pictorial Images.” Library Trends 48/2 (Fall 1999): 379-409. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/libt1999.html.

 

Coppock, T. (eds). 1999. Making Information Available in Digital Format: Perspectives from Practitioners. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 1999.

 

Kenney, AnneR and Rieger, OyaY. “Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators." Diginews (1998) http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/kodak-htm.htm

 

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

 

Flickner, M., et.al. “Query by Image and Video Content: The QBIC System," Computer, 18/9 (1995): 23-32.

 

Gladney, Henry M., Mintzer, F., Schiattarella, F., Becós, J., & Treu, M. “Digital Access to Antiquities," Communications of the ACM, 41/4 (1998): 49-57.

 

Standards & Interoperability.

 

Bishoff, Liz. “Interoperability and Standards in a Museum Library Collaborative: The Colorado Digitization Project.” First Monday (2000) http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_6/bishoff.

 

GILS. “Global Information Locator Service (GILS) – Making It Easier to Find All the Information.” http://www.gils.net/

 

Holdsworth, D. “A Blueprint for Representation Information in the OAIS Model.”

 

“The Open Archives Initiative”. http://www.openarchives.org/

 

Miscellaneous.

 

Arms, Caroline R. “Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress.” D-Lib Magazine (April 1996). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/04c-arms.html.

 

Arms, Caroline R. “Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress, Part 2.” D-Lib Magazine (May 1996). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/05c-arms.html.

 

Ostrow, Stephen E. Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet. Washington, DC: CLIR, 1998.