General Information

• Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Articles, conferences, and digital library projects.
• Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program, 1995
• Preparing Quality Images for Computer Networks by John P. Weise, The University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies
• Image and Multimedia Database Resources by Howard Besser, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.  Links to a huge amount of information on image databases.
• Digital Toolbox - Colorado Digitization Project.  Designed to guide administrators of digital projects to a wide range of sites and resources.

Networked Archival Description and Data Interchange Standards

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - official web site at the Library of Congress
• Access to Digital Representations of Archival Materials: The Berkeley Finding Aid Project / Daniel V. Pitti. An article originally published in RLG Digital Image Access Project: Proceedings from an RLG Symposium (Palo Alto: The Research Libraries Group, 1995), pp. 73-81.
• Encoded Archival Description and SGML: site maintained by National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Links to all the major resources concerning the EAD document type.

Organizations

• AIIM, The Association for Information and Image Management
• VRA, Visual Resources Association

Technical Resources

Graphics File Formats

• The Graphics File Format Page
• File Formats FAQ
• JPEG image compression FAQ

Data File Formats

• Technical Information and Specifications for HTML, URLs, and HTTP


Hardware

• PC Magazine: Review of color scanners
• image-acquire.com: Digital Eyes -- an independent resource for news and reviews of scanners, digital cameras, and the software that drives them.
• Nuts and Bolts: Digital Cameras, Berkeley Multimedia Research Center -- an overview with links to the major manufacturers.

Selected Digitization Projects at Other Institutions

Surveys:

• Clearinghouse of Image Databases and IMAGELIB listserv archives, University of Arizona

Project Web Sites:

• Carnegie-Mellon University: Heinz Archives (HELIOS Project)
• Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. University of Michigan site |  Cornell University site
• Colorado Digitization Project: a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums
• Columbia University - Digital Image Access Project
• Duke University: Digital Scriptorium
• Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion: Joint Project of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence; Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence; and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
• Library of Congress: American Memory
• American Memory Background Papers and Technical Information
• Library of Virginia: Digital Library Program
• National Archives and Records Administration: NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL), A Prototype Database of Selected Holdings
• National Library of New Zealand: Timeframes
• Project Gutenberg - "Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published"
• Rutgers University: Thomas A. Edison Papers
• University of California, Berkeley: California Heritage Collection
• University of California-San Francisco: Tobacco Control Archives: Brown & Williamson Collection
• University of Georgia: Hargrett Library Digital Archive
• University of Pennsylvania: Special Collections: Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image

Articles and Other Resources:

• Chapman, Stephen, and Anne Kenney.  "Digital Conversion of Research Library Materials: A Case for Full Informational Capture."  D-Lib Magazine, October 1996.
• Mintzer, F.C., et al.  "Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials." IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 40, No. 2.
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: contains links to many articles and project sites.

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