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DATE

ASSIGNMENT

September 2 What are the roles of digitization in libraries and archives? (Ellen C-K)

Ogden, Sherelyn, Editor. Preservation of Library Materials: A Manual. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1999. Read Leaflets 4 and 5 by Paul Conway in Section 5.

http://www.nedcc.org/welcome/pubs.htm

September 9

Selection for digitization; Copyright (Ellen C-K)

Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham. Selecting Research Collections for Digitization. August 1998

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

NISO Framework Advisory Group. Framework for Building Good Digital Collections: 2nd ed., 2004

http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html

Read introduction and Collection Principles.

Digital Library of Georgia. July 2001. Collection Development Policy: Digitized Collections. 10 Feb. 2005

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/colldev.html

UT Library Online. Digital Library Collection Development Framework. The University of Texas. 29 Aug. 2004

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/admin/cird/policies/subjects/framework.html

Minow, Mary. Library Digitization Projects and Copyright. 28 June 28 2002

http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm

Read entire Website.

 

September 16

Project development, costs, workflow, management (Ellen C-K, Aaron Choate, UT Libraries, Digital Library Services)

Overview of metadata and archiving; discussion of metadata capture protocols for classwork (Dr. Patricia Galloway)

National Digital Library Project. NDLP Project Planning Checklist, Library of Congress, American Memory. 9 December 2001

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/prjplan.html

Cunningham-Kruppa, Ellen and Metzger, Consuela. Conservation Considerations Before, During, and After Digitization Projects: The Physical Reality. Conference preprints: Association pour la recherche scientifique sur les arts graphiques: Paris, 27-30 Mai 2002. (Class handout)

Library of Congress. METS Overview and Tutorial.

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.html

Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. OCLC/RLG, 2005.

http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf

Research Libraries Group. Automatic Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images.

http://www.rlg.org/longterm/ae_whitepaper_2003.pdf

September 23

Photographs (Aaron Choate)

Audio (Sarah Cunningham, iSchool Kilgarlin Center, LBJ Library and Archives)

Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging
for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000.
Pages 24-60 (Available on E-Reserve.)

U.S. Government Printing Office. Fdsys Specification for Converted Content (Version 3.0). Draft, June 2005.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/FDsys_ccspecs.pdf

Puglia, Steven, Reed, Jeffrey, and Rhodes, Erin. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files-Raster Images. College Park, MD: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), June 2004.

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/techguide_raster_june2004.pdf

Frey, Franziska S., and James M. Reilly. Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards. Rochester, NY: Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999.

http://www.rlg.org/legacy/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com

Sitts, Maxine K., Editor. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000.

http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm

Section VII: Developing Best Practices: Guidelines from Case Studies 2. Working with Photographs

Colorado Digitization Program, Digital Audio Working Group. Digital Audio Best Practices Version 1.2. May 2003

http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/audio/std_audio.htm.

St-Lauren, Gilles. The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials. Music Division, National Library of Canada. January 1996

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/st-laurent/care.html

October 7

Printed text (Aaron Choate)

Please review readings from class 4.

October 14

Video (Quinn Stewart, School of Information)

Teruggi, Daniel. Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage? ARIADNE Issue 39, April 2004.

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/teruggi/

Wheeler, Jim. Videotape Preservation Handbook 2002

http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/WheelerVideo.pdf.

Association of Moving Image Archivists. Reformatting for Preservation: Understanding Tape Formats and Other Conversion Issues.

http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/videofacts/reformatting.html

October 21

Photographs (Aaron Choate)

Moving Theory into Practice, Pages 61-83 (Available on E-Reserve.)

October 28

Audio (Sarah Cunningham)

November 4

Video (Quinn Stewart)

Adobe Video Primers. Assorted pages from the following primers:
Adobe Digital Video Primer
Adobe DV Compression Primer
Adobe DVD Primer
Adobe Streaming Media Primer
Pages to be announced
http://www.adobe.com/motion/primers.html
November 11

Printed text (Aaron Choate)

Moving Theory into Practice, Pages 110 – 116 (Available on E-Reserve.)

Handbook for Digital Projects http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm Section VII: Developing Best Practices: Guidelines from Case Studies Working with Printed Text and Manuscripts

November 18

Using digitization as a preservation tool; taking a
look at large-scale projects for research collections (Ellen C-K)

Microform and Imaging Review. Vol. 33, no. 4, fall 2004. Read
entire issue. (Available on E-Reserve.)
December 2

Group presentations