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385R – Survey of Digitization
Unique #26222 Spring 2006

Readings

NOTE: Knowledge related to the topics covered in this course is constantly changing. New readings may be added to the course website as the semester progresses. Please check the course website each week for readings.

Class 1
No readings

Class 2
Smith, Abby. Why Digitize? Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources. February 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html

Association of Research Libraries Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee. Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method. June 2004.
http://www.arl.org/preserv/digit_final.html

Kennedy, Maria R. Preservation Reformatting Departments: The Effect of Digitization on Workload and Staff. College and Research Libraries, 66:6 (2005): 543-51.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml;jessionid=S4FYOBZXN4TBFQA3DIMSFGGADUNGIIV0?_requestid=128606
Class 3
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.

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

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.

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)

Class 4
No readings

Class 5
National Library of Australia. Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI): Metadata and Preservation Metadata Trail.
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/trails/metadata_and_preservation_metadata.html
(Browse site and become familiar with the major issues.)

Research Libraries Group, OCLC. Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata. May 2005. http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf.

National Library of Australia. Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections. October 15, 1999. http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/pmeta.html

Class 6
Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000. Read pages 24-83. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dlp/delivery/survey/
Login Info: User: eres Pass: survey

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 - Working with Photographs)

Class 7
No readings

Class 8
Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000. Read pages 110-16. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dlp/delivery/survey/
Login Info: User: eres Pass: survey

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 - Working with Printed Text and Manuscripts)

Class 9
No readings

Class 10
No readings

Class 11
National Film and Sound Archive. How to Care for Your Audio.
http://www.screensound.gov.au/Screensound/Screenso.nsf/AllDocs/CB2BC597A0DB2AE8CA256B5D00152F37?OpenDocument

Chapter 3. Multimedia Data Representations: 1.1 Digitization of Sound. Computing Science @ Simon Frasier University.
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/365/li/material/notes/Chap3/Chap3.1/Chap3.1.html

Fells, Nick, Pauline Donarchy, Catherine Owen. Creating Digital Audio Resources: A Guide to Best Practices. Arts and Humanities Data Service. http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/audio-resources/GGP_Audio_Overview.htm

Fries, Bruce and Fries, Marty. The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook: Chapter 11. A Digital Audio Primer. http://teamcombooks.com/mp3handbook/MP3_Handbook.htm

Grotke, Robert W. Digitizing the World's Largest Collection of Natural Sounds: Key Factors to Consider when Transferring Analog-Based Audio Materials to Digital Formats. RLG DigiNews. http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=13201#article0

Class 12
No readings

Class 13
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