Subject: REMINDERS: DRH Registration; LC/Ameritech Deadline
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:18:29 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130505b1e7e5052fb2@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:18:29 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: REMINDERS: DRH Registration; LC/Ameritech Deadline
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
July 29, 1998
REMINDERS:
LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/>
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DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>
DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>
Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session
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LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/>
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:42:02 -0400
>From: "Paulson, Barbara" <BPaulson@NEH.GOV>
Library of Congress/ Ameritech National Digital Library Competition
The 1998/99 guidelines are now available to view or download from the
Competition Web page (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/). The
deadline for this year is November 2, 1998 (postmark).
On August 13th, a one day workshop at the Library of Congress
will be given on proposal preparation and technical requirements.
The workshop is free but seating is limited to 55 and advance registration
is required. For reservations, call (202) 707-1087 or use the registration
form accessed through the competition's web site. In addition, LC/Ameritech
staff will be available to answer questions at the Society of American
Archivists Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL on September 3-4, 1998.
Open office hours will be held on September 3rd from 1-2 p.m. and
individual consultations on September 3-4 by appointment, call (202) 707-1087.
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DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>
DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>
Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session
A detailed program for the DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES Conference
(Sept9-11, 1998, Glasgow, UK) is now available at
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>.
The Registration Deadline (to guarantee accommodation and meals) is August
1, 1998. Online registration is available at:
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>.
NINCH has organized one session at DRH: Details and an abstract follow:
Coming Together: Three Comparative U. S. Approaches to Networking Cultural
Heritage
* AMERICAN HERITAGE VIRTUAL ARCHIVE PROJECT, Daniel Pitti, Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
* AMERICAN STRATEGY, Kathleen McDonnell, Getty Information Institute.
* ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM, Kenneth Hamma, Getty Museum
Session Chair: David Green, National initiative for a Networked Cultural
Heritage
This session will report on three exemplary projects from different domains
at different stages of development and with different economic, technical
and organizational strategies for integrating and providing access to
cultural heritage materials in the U.S. Strategies include decisions about
centralized versus decentralized delivery systems, SGML against HTML
encoding, defining different primary audiences and different funding
mechanisms.
The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project brings together four
university archives to create a shared test-bed database of EAD-encoded
finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting
American history and culture. AMICO is a consortium of 23 art museums
across North America currently building a testbed library of 20,000 digital
images and metadata for licensing to educational institutions. American
Strategy is organizing unified access to cultural heritage collections in
diverse U.S. Government federal agencies (from the National Park Service to
the Department of Defense).
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American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
The American Heritage Virtual Archive (AHVA) Project was a collaborative
project involving the University of Virginia, Stanford University, Duke
University, and the University of California, Berkeley. AHVA was funded by
the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities from June 1996 to December
1997.
The major objective of AHVA was exploring the intellectual, political, and
technical challenges of building a centralized database of archival finding
aids providing access to dispersed primary resources documenting the
history and culture of the United States. Among the intellectual issues
explored were the potential impact of new kinds of users on archival
description, and extending and developing descriptive and technical
apparatus for linking dispersed but related archival materials. All digital
collaborative projects and programs have political dimensions that need to
be taken into account if they are to be successful. The AHVA, from this
perspective, can be looked upon as an exercise in "community building." A
central component of the "community building" was the development of "an
acceptable range of uniform practice" in the application of Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) in converting a large body of diverse archival
finding aids that are mounted in one database. While acknowledging that it
would be desirable to base the AHVA on distributed client-server
architecture, the project instead focused on centralized publishing of the
finding aids at Berkeley, with the creation and maintenance of the finding
aids distributed among the collaborators. This approach was taken to allow
participants to focus on the complex technical and intellectual issues
involved in uniform encoding without being distracted by the more general
problems of client-server architecture.
AHVA has had a major impact on the University of California Encoded
Archival Description Project, and its successor, the Online Archive of
California (OAC), as well as on other emerging international, national, and
regional archival description projects. The OAC is a cooperative program
administered by the California Digital Library in the University of
California System. There are now more than 25 archives, libraries, and
museums in the OAC, representing all nine campuses in the University of
California System, the California State Library, the California State
Historical Society, several campuses in the California State Colleges and
Universities System, and several private universities and museums. The
Research Libraries Group (RLG) is planning to make "Archival Resources"
available for subscription early this September. "Archival Resources" will
provide union access to finding aids from repositories throughout the
world. Rather than mounting all finding aids on its own server, RLG intends
to provide a union index to finding aids distributed around the Internet.
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Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
The Art Museum Image Consortium <http://www.amn.org/AMICO/> is one
outgrowth of the very fruitful Museum Educational Site Licensing project,
sponsored by the Getty Information Institute
<http://www.gii.getty.edu/index/mesl.html>. AMICO is a new nonprofit
subscription-based organization currently consisting of 23 major art
museums in North America, formed with the intent of providing educational
institutions with a library of digital images accompanied by rich
documenting and contextualizing metadata. Some works will also be
accompanied by additional images, audio clips, and moving images. The AMICO
Library will grow over time to represent the full range of materials in the
collections of member institutions. A preliminary library of 20,000 images
and metadata is currently being prepared for a test-bed year (1998-99)
working with 22 colleges and universities and full implementation will be
available to any higher-education institution for the following academic
year. Licenses for public library use are also being developed. In
consultation with the academic community, AMICO has developed a license for
the use of its digital library that supports traditional academic uses and
expands the potential for uses that take advantage of new technology. This
license addresses concerns voiced by academic users to enable "electronic
reserves", remote access, faculty assemblage of specific materials for
student review, and the incorporation of licensed materials into student
projects, portfolios and theses.
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American Strategy
American Strategy is a visionary partnership initiative joining
federal collecting departments and agencies, including the Smithsonian
Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the
National Park Service, the National Archives and Records
Administration, and the Department of Defense, with the Institute of
Museum and Library Services, the American Association of Museums, and
the Getty Information Institute in a collaborative approach to:
* improve communication among the federal repositories about their
cultural collections;
* define and share best practices for providing access to such
information on the Internet;
* coordinate the development and implementation of information
standards; and
* initiate unified public-private strategies to develop on-line access
to cultural information.
The vision of the American Strategy initiative is to extend public
service to provide a broad, global audience with deeper, meaningful
access to cultural heritage resources held in American federal
collections. The Strategy's objectives are to:
* demonstrate federal agencies' commitment to develop access to
America's cultural resources, realizing the public's right to access
their collections;
* increase ease of information sharing among agencies;
* extend federal cultural technology initiatives beyond wiring and
hardware to content and context, and
* improve evaluation and audience feedback mechanisms, quality controls,
and standards.
American Strategy has already begun to meet its objectives. During
Summer 1998 more than two dozen federal agencies and museums began
participation in a collective gateway to offer access to their
digitized collections on the Internet. In conjunction with this,
American Strategy participants contributed information and staff
expertise to an on-line demonstration project, led by the Getty
Information Institute, that will illustrate American ideals, American
places, and American accomplishments. Through this proof-of-concept
project American Strategy will consider how best to support searching
across multiple databases, how sophisticated search methods can be
applied to meet a wide range of research needs, how new technologies
can use images to seek similar images, and how information might be
thematically compiled to create educational resources.
The public's demand for more and better quality information will be
the continuing impetus for the federal agencies as they work together
to integrate their offerings, provide additional context, seek
partnerships with technology corporations to develop sophisticated
navigation and retrieval tools, and work with teachers to improve
educational offerings for the elementary school student to the
life-long learner.
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