Subject: BEST PRACTICES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER: "DIGITAL FORMATS FOR CONTENT REPRODUCTIONS"
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:40:54 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130538b1e518afcfb9@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:40:54 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: BEST PRACTICES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER: "DIGITAL FORMATS FOR CONTENT REPRODUCTIONS"
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
July 29, 1998
BEST PRACTICES:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER: "DIGITAL FORMATS FOR CONTENT REPRODUCTIONS"
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html>
Part of LC "Background and Technical Documents" at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html>
As part of its effort to make as widely available as possible documents and
decisions behind the creation and development of its "American Memory"
project, the Library of Congress has recently added a new paper by Carl
Fleischhauer to its "Background and Technical Documents" website.
David Green
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>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:18:23 -0500
>From: Tamara Swora <tswo@LOC.GOV>
>Subject: New digital formats paper from the LC/NDLP
>
>(Message below is being widely posted)
>
>The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) has
>released a revised version of the paper "Digital Formats for Content
>Reproductions"
>
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html
>
>by Carl Fleischhauer, the programs technical coordinator. The document
>describes the Librarys approach to reproducing historical materials and
>lists the types of digital formats selected by the Library for this
>purpose. It includes discussion of formats for pictorial materials,
>textual materials, maps, sound recordings, and moving-image materials,
>and is illustrated with examples. Comments or questions about this paper
>can be directed to Carl Fleischhauer at cfle@loc.gov.
>
>The paper appears as a part of the Background and Technical Documents
>Section the American Memory website.
>
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
>
>In the coming months, documents in this section will be updated or newly
>released and such changes will be announced.
>
>
>
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>DIGLIB is a public service provided by IFLA (http://www.ifla.org) and
>sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "The Network is the Computer".
>
>Sun has three new PDF case studies available on its Education website;
>http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/success/segment_list.html
>
>- Stanford HighWire Press' use of Java to publish STM journals on the Web
>- JSTOR's development of an electronic journal archive and access system
>- Pennsylvania's Keystone Project for statewide academic library resource
> sharing
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
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Washington DC 20036
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