This might be of interest to eLibbers (and NFF types, too)
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> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:21:29 +0000
> From: Tamara Swora <[log in to unmask]>
>
> The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (LC/NDLP) has various
> technical discussions, documentation, reports and proceedings available
> through the LC/American Memory/NDLP homepage
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
> The URL for this technical information is
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
> Additional documentation will be released in this section of the home page as
> the NDLP continues its work in the coming years.
>
> Documents recently released and available on the web include the two-part
> report about the NDLP which first appeared in the D-Lib electronic magazine at
> the CNRI website, "Historical Collections for the National Digital Library:
> Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress", and a report prepared for
> the NDLP by the Image Permanence Institute (James Reilly and Dr.Franziska
> Frey), entitled, "Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images
> Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats."
> This report discusses approaches to evaluate the performance of scanning
> service providers and the measurement of capture resolution and tonality by
> interpreting or reading test targets. The American Memory SGML Document Type
> Definition (DTD) and the Encoded Archival Description homepage were also made
> available this month.
>
> Previously released information includes a discussion about the American
> Memory Pilot Project, various American Memory Technical Papers: "Elements of
> Digital Archive Collections", "Frameworks and Finding Aids: Organizing Digital
> Archive Collections", "Reproduction Quality Issues in a Digital Library
> System" and also the proceedings of the Workshop on Electronic Texts held at
> LC in 1992.
>
> Comments, suggestions or requests can be addressed to [log in to unmask]
>
> Tamara Swora
> National Digital Library Program
> Library of Congress
> [log in to unmask]
>
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Chris Rusbridge
Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981
Email [log in to unmask]
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