Subject: DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:42:48 -0400
Message-Id: <v04210103b59a1a40c813@[192.100.21.22]> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:42:48 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
July 18, 2000
Digital Library Federation and Research Libraries Group Issue
"Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging"
<http://www.rlg.org/visguides/>
A set of five guides to the technical and planning aspects of digital
imaging of visual resources has been made freely available on the
website of the Research Libraries group.
A project of RLG, the Digital Libraries Federation and the Council on
Library and Information Resources, the Guides are written by
commissioned authors and are titled: "Planning a Digital Imaging
Project; "Selecting a Scanner;" "Imaging Systems: the Range of
Factors Affecting Image Quality;" "Measuring Quality of Digital
Masters;" and "File Formats for Digital Masters."
The Guides will be updated, so user comment is encouraged.
David Green
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>NEWS RELEASE
>July 17, 2000
>
>DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources
>
>For more information, contact Jennifer Hartzell (jlh@notes.rlg.org,
> 650-691-2207) or Daniel Greenstein (dgreenstein@clir.org, 202-939-4762)
>
>
>Washington, DC, and Mountain View, Calif.-The Digital Library
>Federation (DLF) and Research Libraries Group (RLG) have issued
>Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, available at
>www.rlg.org/visguides/. This new Web-based reference is designed to
>serve the growing community of museums, archives, and research
>libraries that are turning to digital conversion to provide greater
>access to their visual resources as well as to help preserve the
>original materials. "Visual resources" include original photographs,
>prints, drawings, and maps. Both project managers and technicians
>will find the Guides particularly valuable in filling a gap in the
>literature for serious digital imaging projects. They provide
>concrete guidelines as well as help in addressing rapidly changing
>aspects of technology and practice.
>
>The five guides-which range from project planning to scanner
>selection, considerations for imaging systems, digital master
>quality, and masters' storage-share the experience and knowledge of
>leaders in this field. In addition to providing advice based on the
>uses to which the images will be put and the technology now
>available, they also flag areas where further research and testing
>are needed.
>
>"Guides such as these promise to maximize effective exploitation of
>digital technologies while minimizing costly redundant effort," said
>Dan Greenstein, DLF's director. "The development and maintenance of
>good practice guidelines is an essentially collaborative effort
>requiring inclusive and iterative evaluation. We welcome comments,
>criticisms, and amendments for incorporation in future revisions."
>
>The Guides are the outcome of a project begun by DLF and RLG in
>1998, when they created an editorial board of experts to review the
>state of the art in digital imaging of visual resources. Although
>sources for instruction in digitizing text or text and images
>existed (and more have become available since then), none
>specifically addressed the challenges of two- and three-dimensional,
>as well as color-intensive, materials. These experts outlined a set
>of guides needed in the science of imaging-objective measures for
>image qualities and how they can be controlled in various aspects of
>the imaging process. DLF then commissioned board-recommended authors
>to write the guides, which the two organizations have now jointly
>published.
>
>"We are very pleased that this collaboration between the Digital
>Library Federation and the Research Libraries Group has produced a
>set of expert and timely tools for project leaders and their teams
>around the world," said Linda West, RLG's director of Member and
>Programs Initiatives. "It is a contribution to informed and
>long-lasting digital decision-making and practices in research
>collections."
>
> The guides are:
>
>* Planning a Digital Imaging Project,
> by Linda Serenson Colet, Museum of Modern Art
>* Selecting a Scanner,
> by Don Williams, Eastman Kodak Company
>* Imaging Systems: the Range of Factors Affecting Image Quality,
> by Donald D'Amato, Mitretek Systems
>* Measuring Quality of Digital Masters, and
>* File Formats for Digital Masters,
> both by Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute
>
>Each guide is a module that can stand on its own; as a set, the
>guides provide comprehensive advice on how to find what an imaging
>team needs to accomplish stated goals with the available technology.
>The Guides also help to clarify the consequences of trade-offs that
>all managers must make to stay within organizations' means. The
>Guides will be updated periodically.
>
>The Digital Library Federation is a partnership of research
>libraries dedicated to creating, maintaining, expanding, and
>preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible
>to scholars and to a wider public. It operates under the umbrella of
>the Council on Library and Information Resources, which works in
>partnership with libraries, archives, and other information
>providers to advocate collaborative approaches to preserving the
>nation's intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components
>of its information system.
>
>The Research Libraries Group is a not-for-profit membership
>corporation of over 160 universities, national libraries, archives,
>historical societies, and other institutions, devoted to the mission
>of "improving access to information that supports research and
>learning." In addition to a range of collaborative activities that
>address members' shared goals, RLG develops and operates databases
>and software to serve the information needs of member and nonmember
>institutions and individuals around the world.
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