Guidelines Digital Reformatting Projects Appendices

Appendices

The literature on digital projects is large and diverse. Some of the information presented in Guidelines for Digital Formatting Projects was the result of studying what other institutions had already accomplished, and then adapting that information to the Library's needs. Some of the more important Web resources are as follows:

Overall Guides

Colorado Digitization Project: http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction/index.html
Columbia University Libraries: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/
Cornell University: http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access, by Maxine K. Sitts, Editor, Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts, 2000: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/tocf1.htm#TofC
TASI, "An Introduction to Making Digital Image Archives," http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/overview.html
Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, (Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access, 1996. http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/index.html

Project Planning

Arts & Humanities Data Service, "Digitisation. A Project Planning Checklist," http://ahds.ac.uk/checklist.htm
Maria Bonn, "Benchmarking Conversion Costs: A Report from the Making of America IV Project," RLG DigiNews, Oct. 2001. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-5.html#
New York Public Library, "Planning Digital Projects for Historic Collections" http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/planning.htm
Steve Puglia, "The Costs of Digital Imaging Projects," RLG DigiNews, Oct. 1999. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-5.html#feature

Selection Criteria

Paul Ayris, "Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation," Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference, http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html
Brown University Library, "Selection Criteria for Digitization" http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/digproj/digcolls/selection.html
CLIR, "Selecting Research Collections for Digitization" by Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html
Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria For Digital Imaging http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html
RLG & NPO, "Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation" http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html

Digitization

Image Quality Working Group of ArchivesCom, "Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects" http://www.columbia.edu/acis/dl/imagespec.html
Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman, Tutorial: Digital Resolution Requirements for Replacing Text-based Material: Methods for Benchmarking Image Quality, 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub53.html
Anne R. Kenney and Louis H. Sharpe II, Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations, 1999, http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/rt/illbk/ibs.htm

Cataloging and Metadata

Getty Standards Program, "Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html

Storage

Cornell University, "Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial", Chapter 6C. Technical Infrastructure: File Management, http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/technical/technicalC-03.html