• Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collection by Timothy W. Cole

• Other Web Sites
• Selection of Collections for Digitization
• Glossary
• Copyright and Rights Management
• Procedures and Practices for Scanning
• Costs and Project Evaluation
• Contracting for Digital Imaging
• File Formats 
• Markup Languages
• Image Management Software
• Resource Identifiers
• Dublin Core Metadata 
• Other Metadata Documents 
• Sound 
• Publications 
• Organizations
• Digital Library Initiatives and Illustrative Sites 
• Digital Theses and Dissertations 
• Bibliographies 

Other Web Sites

• Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative (Univ. of IL)

• Image and Multimedia Database Resources, compiled by Howard Besser and Rachel Onuf.

• Imaging Information (Berkeley SunSITE)

• OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources

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Selection of Collections for Digitization

• Questions to Ask Before Starting a Digitization Project

• Selecting Research Collections for Digitization, by Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham

• Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects (Columbia University)

• Why Digitize, by Abby Smith.

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Glossary

• Digitization Glossary (Colorado Digitization Program)

• Glossaries Related to Digital Imaging

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Copyright and Rights Management

• ARL Copyright and Intellectual Property

• CONFU (Conference on Fair Use)

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act : Status & Analysis

• Primer on the Digital Millennium

• Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment (National Humanities Alliance)

• Copyright Basics (The U.S. Copyright Office)

• Copyright Information Circulars and Form Letters

• The Copyright Web Site

• The Duration of Copyright

• Fair Use and Copyright Policies (University at Buffalo)

• Fair Use of Copyrighted Works (CETUS)

• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work

• IFLA : Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources

• Legal, Copyright & Intellectual Property Resources (Colorado Digitization Program)

• Library of Congress. Copyright Office

• Title 17 "Copyrights" from the United States Code

• U.S Copyright Documents

• Xerox ContentGuard

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Procedures and Practices for Scanning

• American Memory Project/National Digital Library Program

• Access Aids and Interoperability

• American Memory DTD for Historical Documents

• Background Papers and Technical Information : Documents Relating to Digitization Efforts at the Library of Congress

• Digital Formats for Content Reproductions

• Digital Historical Collections: Types, Elements, And Construction

• Encoded Archival Description Finding Aids

• Lessons Learned (National Digital Library Competition)

• Navigating Finding Aids in Panorama Pathfinder

• Pathfinder Searches

• Quality Review of Document Images : Internal Training Guide

• Steps in the Digitization Process

• Archival Digital Image Creation (includes basic helpsheets for text scanning and image scanning)

• Archive Builders (resources used in UCLA extension courses)

• Digital Technology Made Simpler, by Paul Conway

• Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging (Digital Library Federation)

• Guidelines for Electronic Preservation of Visual Materials

• Image Standards Needed, by Howard Besser.

• Internet Library of Early English Journals. Final Report

• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database

• NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access

• Procedures and Practices for Scanning (Berkeley Sun Site)

• Project Management Resources (Colorado Digitization Program)

• Technical Resources (Colorado Digitization Program)

• Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access

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Costs and Project Evaluation

• "The Costs of Digital Imaging Projects, by Steven Puglia.

• "Project Soup : comparing evaluations of digital collection efforts," by Michael L.W. Jones, Geri K. Gay, and Robert H. Rieger

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Contracting for Digital Imaging

• Access Imagery

• Digital Imaging Vendors (Colorado Digitization Program)

• i Archives

• Microfilm Scanning (RLG DigiNews)

• "Outsourcing Digitization," by Roy Tennant.

• PACific Data Conversion Corp. Contact: Iris L. Hanney-ihanney@epix.net--717 646-5302 (recent arrangements with University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Iowa).

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File Formats

• Common Internet File Formats

• DjVu

• JPEG FAQ

• JPEG 2000

• MrSid

• Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects (Columbia University)

• Universal Preservation Format

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Markup Languages

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Sites on the Web

• Extensible Markup Language

• HTML 4.0 Working Draft Release

• HyperText Markup Language (W3C's home page for HTML)

• Library of Congress Finding Aids (Encoded Archival Description)

• RLG Recommended Application Guidelines for EAD

• SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)

• SGML: Getting Started

• SGML as a Framework for Digital Preservation and Access (abstract only)

• The SGML/XML Web Page

• TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P3)

• TEI/MARC "Best Practices"

• Text Encoding Initiative

• Web Collections using XML

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Image Management Software

• Adobe Acrobat

• Adobe Photoshop

• Digimarc

• Image AXS Pro

• MultiMIMSY 2000

• PaintShop Pro

• Pantone

• PhotoImpact 4

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Resource Identifiers

• Identification, location and versioning of web-resources (URI Discussion Paper)

• Requirements and Recommendations on the use of URIs

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Dublin Core Metadata

• Description of Dublin Core Elements

• Dublin Core and the Cataloging Rules

• The Dublin Core Descriptive Metadata Program: Strategic Implications for Libraries and Networked Information Access

• Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

• Dublin Core/MARC/GILS/Crosswalk

• Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery

• Dublin Core Metadata Initative. Using Dublin Core

• Introduction to Metadata; or, Old Wine in New Bottles, prepared by Robin Wendler

• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report [1st Dublin Core Metadata Workshop: Summary report]

• The Warwick Metadata Workshop [2nd Dublin Core Metadata Workshop]

• Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images, September 24-25, 1996 [3d Dublin Core Metadata Workshop, Dublin, Ohio]

• The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report [Canberra]

• DC-5: The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report [Helsinki]

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Other Metadata Documents

• ALCTS CC:DA Taskforce on Metadata minutes of meetings

• ALCTS CC:DA Taskforce on Metadata and the Cataloging Rules. Final Report

• ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access

• CORC--Cooperative Online Resource Catalog

• Digital Library Metadata (Columbia University Digital Library Projects)

• IMS Metadata

• IFLA. Digital Libraries : Metadata Resources

• Introduction to metadata : pathways to digital information, ed. Murtha Baca.

• Libraries and the Internet / Stuart L. Weibel

• Managing Metadata for the Digital Library: Crosswalks Or Chaos?

• Meta Matters

• Metadata : Cataloging by Any Other Name..., by Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman

• metamarda-l Listserv Archive

• Metadata for the Masses

• The Metadata Workshop Series / Stuart L. Weibel

• Metadata: The Foundations of Resource Description / Stuart L. Weibel

• Proceedings of the Third IEEE META-DATA Conference, April 6-7, 1999

• A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML / Stuart L. Weibel

• Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• Review of Metadata Formats

• RLG Metadata Summit Meeting Report

• Sources of Metadata Information on the Web from Metadata : Cataloging by Any Other Name..., by Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman.

• What Is Metadata, by Judith Hopkins

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Sound

• Delaware Valley Digital Media

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Publications

• CIT Infobits (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology)

• CLIR Publications

• Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, by Timothy W. Cole

• Current Cites

• D-LIB Magazine

• Digital Library News (IEEE Computer Society)

• Digital Library News (University of Texas at Austin)

• Digital Library Production Service (University of Michigan)

• Digital Library Tool Kit

• Handbook for Digital Projects (Northeast Document Conservation Center)

• Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements Printed Illustrations

• Infotech Digital Libraries (Library Journal Digital)

• Journal of Digital Information

• Journal of Electronic Publishing

• Lessons Learned : Digitization of Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries

• LOOKSEE (Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing)

• National Digital Library Federation. NDLF Planning Task Force. Final Report

• The National Digital Library Program

• NINCH-Announce

• Octavo-Digital Facsimiles of Rare Books 

• PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information

• Preserving Digital Information

• Preserving the Whole : a Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata

• Principles for Digital Library Development. Communications of the ACM v.44, no.5, 2001

• Research & Testing Publications (Library of Congress. Preservation Research & Testing Division)

• Rethinking Libraries in the Information Age: Lessons Learned with Five Digital Library Projects,by Edward A. Fox

• RLG DigiNews

• Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections

• Selecting Research Collections for Digitization, by Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham

• Strategies for Building Digitized Collections, by Abby Smith.

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Organizations

• Art Museum Image Consortium

• Association of Research Libraries. ARL Digital Initiatives Database

• Coalition for Networked Information

• Commission on Preservation and Access Newsletter

• Consortium of University Research Libraries. CURL Exemplars for Digital Archives

• Digital Future Coalition

• Digital Library Extension Service (Univ. of Mich)

• Digital Library Federation

• Digital Preservation Consortium

• Getty Conservation Institute. Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity

• IBM Digital Library

• IEEE Digital Library Task Force

• IFLA Digital Libraries : Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources

• IFLA Digital Libraries : Resources and Projects

• Institute on Digital Library Development Online

• International DOI Foundation

• International Institute for Electronic Library Research

• Library of Congress. Preservation Digital Reformatting Program

• National Archives and Records Administration

• National Digital Library Federation

• Performing Arts Data Service

• Texas A&M University. Center for the Study of Digital Libraries

• Virtual Heritage Network

• Xerox

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Digital Library Initiatives and Illustrative Sites

• Digital Library Initiatives

• Alexandria Project (UC Santa Barbara)

• Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE

• Clearinghouse of Image Databases (U. of Arizona)

• Colorado Digitization Program

• Columbia University Academic Information Systems

• Connecticut History Online

• Cornell Digital Library Project

• CUL/AcIS Digital Library Projects

• Digital Library of Georgia

• Duke University

• Electronic Records Project (Indiana University)

• Emory University. The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections & Services

• Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)

• ibiblio.org

• Informedia Digital Video Library (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Institute on Digital Library Development Online

• Kentuckiana Digital Library

• Louisiana State University Digital Library

• National Environmental Publications Internet Site

• National Library of Canada. Electronic Collection

• New York Public Library

• NOAA Photo Collection

• North Carolina State University Archives Records Service

• Northeast Document Conservation Center

• NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative Projects

• Oklahoma State University

• PADI Preserving Access to Digital Information (Australia)

• Phase One

• Photograph Archives Web Page (Univ of Utah)

• The Photography Collection--Western History (Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library)

• Stanford University Digital Libraries Project

• Trail: Texas Records and Information Locator

• UC Berkeley Digital Library Project

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative

• University of Michigan Digital Library Project

• University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Activities

• University of Pennsylvania Online Image Collections

• University of Virginia. Electronic Text Center

• University of Washington Digital Library Initiatives

• University of Wisconsin at Madison. Local Projects in Electronic Text & Media

• Illustrative Sites

  • Ad* Access

  • American Heritage Virtual Archive Project

  • American Memory

  • American Studies Crossroads Project

  • Blake Archive

  • Center for History and New Media

  • Compass (The British Museum)

  • Dime Novels Novels and Penny Dreadfuls

  • Historic Pittsburgh

  • Internet Library of Early Journals

  • Making of America (Cornell University)

  • Making of America (University of Michigan)

  • The Making of New York

  • National Archives and Records Administration. The Exhibit Hall

  • Octavo-Digital Facsimiles of Rare Books

  • Online Calendar of Henry James's Letters and a Biographical Register of Henry James's Correspondents

  • The Picture Collection

  • Smithsonian Institution

  • Women Writers Project Textbase (Brown University)

  • Wright American Fiction (Indiana University)

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Digital Theses and Dissertations

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

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Bibliographies

• Current Cites Bibliography on Demand

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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John Edens
Created Feb. 14, 1998
Revised June 24, 2004

Preservation Department
University at Buffalo Libraries
Comments: askcts@buffalo.edu
Last update: 18 February 2005
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