RESOURCES
PREPARING
Selecting Research
Collections for Digitization
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html
Columbia University
Libraries. Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects. 2000 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/
Outlines the collection development, use, and value issues Columbia uses
in assessing and developing digital projects.
Fleischhauer, Carl. Digital Historical Collections: Types, Elements, and
Construction. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/elements.html
COLLABORATIVE DIGITIZATION PROGRAM
PROJECT COLLECTION POLICY
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/CDPCollectionPolicyMay2006.pdf
Digital manuscript
images
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/imagedb.html
CDS
Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger. Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for
Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators.
Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library:
New York, 1998 (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/cover.htm).
One of the biggest problems facing many digital library projects is the lack of authoritative information on various technologies -- primarily information that can support decision making in regard to their effectiveness for different tasks. With this report, Kenney and Rieger provide the kind of nitty-gritty technical information for the Kodak Photo CD technology that digital librarians need to make good decisions. This is not the first time that the Cornell University Library has provided essential technical information for digital library developers (see "Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives," http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/publications.html), and I hope that it isn't the last. This paper is characteristically thorough, well-researched and documented, and flawlessly presented in Adobe Acrobat format. It is chock-full of good advice, tables, diagrams, examples, and Web addresses for further information. This is an essential reference document for anyone working with Kodak Photo CDs. - Review by Roy Tennant
Other Digitization
Projects
Native American
Constitution and Law Digitization Project
http://thorpe.ou.edu/
University of California - Berkeley (Sunsite) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Library of Congress - American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
LEGAL ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/RIGHTS&PERMISSONS
Legal Issues
To Consider When Digitizing Collections
September, 1999 Prepared for the CDP by Jean Heilig
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/legalIssues.cfm
University of Texas Copyright Crash Course: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
U.S. Patent, Trademark
& Copyright Information
Franklin Pierce Law Center http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/ipbasics.htm
Copyright, Intellectual
Property Rights, and Licensing Issues
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/
Rights and permissions:
SAMPLES
Sample letter requesting permission
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/permmm.htm
U. S. Copyright Office Information Circulars and Form letters: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/
Educational CyberPlayground
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/permissionform.html
When Works Pass Into
the Public Domain by Laura N. Gassaway.
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/ipi5.htm
A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (American Association of Museums) by Michael S. Shapiro and Brett I. Miller, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. 1999.
INDEXING
CDP Metadata Working Group Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices Version 2.1
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/CDPDCMBP.pdf
University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center. Standards. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html An intelligent and well-written introduction to Archival Imaging and the alphabet soup of electronic text: XML, SGML, HTML, EAD, and TEI.
Library of Congress. Encoded Archival Description Official Web Site. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/. Links to general information, news, tools, and documentation regarding the EAD.
Issues in Crosswalking
and Content Metadata Standards
http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/crsswalk.html
Getty Institute Metadata
Standards, http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata
This site contains several useful tools, among them an extensive glossary
of metadata and digital terms and a chart of acronyms and useful URLs.
Gorman, Michael. "Metadata
or Cataloging? A False Choice" Journal of
Internet Cataloging 2(1) 1999: 5-22. In this thoughtful piece Gorman considers
the appropriate roles of MARC, AACR2, the Dublin Core, and web search
engines in making electronic resources more easily discoverable. He ends
with the assertion that we are not faced with a dichotomy, but with an
opportunity, and he proposes using the four-pronged approach to resource
discovery:
- full MARC cataloging,
- enriched Dublin Core records (what is also called the "structuralist" approach),
- minimal Dublin Core records (the "minimalist" approach), and
- full-text keyword searching via web search engines.
Those resources deemed the most valuable would get the full MARC/AACR2 treatment, while others would get progressively less attention until reaching the mass of unselected resources available through web search engines." Review by Roy Tennant
Finding Aids &
Primary Source Material
Berkeley Finding Aid Project, Project Manager, Tim Hoyer
A collaborative endeavor to test the feasibility and desirability of developing
an encoding standard for archive, museum, and library finding aids (documents
used to describe, control, and provide access to collections of related
materials). The project involves two interrelated activities:
- the design and creation of a prototype encoding standard for finding aids
- building a prototype database of finding aids.
The project is supported by Higher Education Act Title IIA funds, and software grants from Electronic Book Technologies (now Inso) and ArborText. A large selection of the finding aids are available on the Online Archive of California at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ . (Review by Roy Tennant)
California Heritage
Digital Image Access Project
A project to demonstrate that USMARC collection level cataloging
records and standardized, electronic versions of archival finding aids,
used together in the network environment, can provide access to and
control of digitized images. The project will create and test a
prototype digital image access system available on the Internet based
upon SGML finding aid technology developed in the Berkeley Finding Aid
Project. Using SGML and XML to create finding aids for special collections
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
