Library of Congress technical documentation on imaging

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 home page

    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 web site, "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
ndlpcoll [at] loc__gov

Tamara Swora
Library of Congress
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress

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