--- Begin Message ---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 website at the Background Documents and Technical Reports page, under Technical Operations Documentation. 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. 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 homepages. 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 website. ---- End included message ----
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