Subject: RLG DigiNews: Digitization Quality Benchmarks; Emulation Test; Metatadata for Digital Archival Collections
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:27:14 -0400
Message-Id: <p05100319b7aaf53b9a26@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:27:14 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: RLG Diginews: Digitization Quality Benchmarks; Emulation Test; Metatadata for Digital Archival Collections
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 23, 2001
RLG DigiNews August, 2001 issue is now available
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
Feature Articles:
* Digital Reproduction Quality: Benchmark Recommendations,
by Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George
* Emulation, Preservation, and Abstraction,
by David Holdsworth and Paul Wheatley
* Metadata for Archival Collections: The University of Toronto's
'Barren Lands' Project,
by Marlene van Ballegooie
The August RLG DigiNews contains some quite interesting pieces. The
Greenstein-George piece summarizes a Digital Library Federation
initiative to consider the creation of some quality benchmarks for
digitization of books and journals. For further information on the
benchmark and background, see the DLF page "Registry of Digital
Reproductions of Paper-based Books and Serials"
http://www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm.
Holdsworth & Wheatley summarize current work within the
Michigan-Leeds CAMILEON project (Creative Archiving at Michigan and
Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New) that is practically testing the
emulation model as a real digital preservation strategy. (Emulation
is the re-creation on current hardware of the technical environment
required to view and use digital objects from earlier times). The
goal of the project the authors write on is to run in emulation a
complex preserved digital object of some complexity with sufficient
verisimilitude to reproduce the significant properties of the
original experience.
Marlene van Ballegooie describes the various metadata requirements
for a complex Canadian digital archival project and how the metadata
enables users to discover and retrieve information from the archive
(containing 5,000 images from original field notebooks,
correspondence, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and published
reports).
David Green
===========
>Subject: August 2001 Issue of RLG DigiNews is Now Available
>To: imagelib@listserv.arizona.edu, padg@ala.org, consdist@lindy.stanford.edu,
> padiforum-l@nla.gov.au, DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>From: Robin Dale <Robin_Dale@NOTES.RLG.ORG>
>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:03:57 -0700
--------------------------------------------------
This message is being cross-posted.
Apologies for duplication.
--------------------------------------------------
The August, 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
(from North American, and other world sites) or
http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/
(from UK Janet sites) or
http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
(from most European sites)
The August 2001 issue includes:
Volume 5, Number 4
Feature Articles
Digital Reproduction Quality: Benchmark Recommendations,
by Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George
Emulation, Preservation, and Abstraction, by David Holdsworth
and Paul Wheatley
Metadata for Archival Collections: The University of Toronto's
'Barren Lands' Project, by Marlene van Ballegooie
Highlighted Web Site - The XML Cover Pages
FAQ - Monitor Resolution: Debunking Misconceptions
RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter intended to:
* Focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of
digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale.
* Provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to improve
our awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital
archiving.
* Announce publications (in any form) that will help staff attain a
deeper understanding of digital issues.
For more information about RLG or PRESERV, RLG's preservation community,
please contact Robin Dale (Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org).
Robin L. Dale
RLG Member Programs & Initiatives
1200 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041-1100
Ph: (650) 691-2238
Fax: 650.964.0943
Email: Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org
-- ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit.For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ==============================================================
Subject: August 2001 Issue of RLG DigiNews is Now Available
To: imagelib@listserv.arizona.edu, padg@ala.org, consdist@lindy.stanford.edu,
padiforum-l@nla.gov.au, DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
From: Robin Dale <Robin_Dale@NOTES.RLG.ORG>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:03:57 -0700
--
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a16 : Fri Dec 21 2001 - 11:30:26 EST