14.0130 new on WWW: D-Lib, Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources

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Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 07:11:30 CUT

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       [1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (32)
             Subject: July/August 2000 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is now
                     available.

       [2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (20)
             Subject: DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual
                     Resources

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             Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:42:54 +0100
             From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
             Subject: July/August 2000 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.

    NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
    News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
    from across the Community
    July 18, 2000

                 July/August 2000 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.
                      <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/07contents.html>http://www
    <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/07contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/ju
    ly00/07contents.html

    Artickes in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine include:

    "Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the
    Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?"
    --William Y. Arms, Cornell University

    "Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time,
    Space, People and a Digital Library in London."
    --Gregory Crane, Tufts University

    "Virginia Dons FEDORA: A Prototype for a Digital Object Repository."
    --Thornton Staples and Ross Wayland, University of Virginia

    "Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES
    Project."
    --Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, University of California, Los Angeles, and
    --Philip B. Eppard, University at Albany, State University of New York

    "Institute for Legal and Ethical Issues in the New Information Era:
    Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives."
    --Tomas A. Lipinski, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    "Dublin Core Releases Recommended Qualifiers"
    --Stuart Weibel and Eric Miller, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

    Also note the book review by Erich Kesse, of "Moving Theory Into Practice:
    Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y.
    Rieger (RLG, 2000)

    David Green
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             Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:43:31 +0100
             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/>http://www.rlg.org/vi
    <<http://www.rlg.org/visguides/>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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