NDLP scanning RFP

The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) has
made available the full content of the RFP which supports all paper
scanning activities within the program. It appears as part of the LC
American Memory/ NDLP web site at the Background Documents and
Technical Reports page, under Technical Operations Documentation.
<URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html>

It is entitled, "Digital Images from Original Documents, Text
Conversion and SGML-Encoding" and is approximately 206 pages in
length.

        <URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/prpsal/coverpag.html>

The document was written by a team of staff from the LC National
Digital Library Program.  It supports the conversion of a variety of
LC archival, paper-based and primarily textual collections into
raster-scanned digital images of the original pages and, in some
cases, also into machine-readable texts encoded with Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML).  In this contract, manuscripts
and similar collections are to be converted to digital-image only
sets, while books and longer narrative works may require conversion
to both images and SGML-encoded text files.  The resulting digital
images and text deliverables will be incorporated into computerized
presentations that are part of the Library's National Digital
Library Program and the American Memory home pages.

The contract has been awarded and is currently in the contract
startup period.  As work proceeds, a number of refinements to the
specifications and practices are being made.  The National Digital
Library will strive to report these adjustments on the LC American
Memory/ NDLP web site.

    **** Moderator's comments:   There is a link to this resource
    from the the Digital Imaging page in CoOL

Tamara Swora

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