New digital formats paper from the LC/NDLP

[Tamara Swora <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

(Message being widely posted)

The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program has released a
revised version of the paper ?Digital Formats for Content Reproductions?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html

by Carl Fleischhauer, the program?s technical coordinator. The document
describes the Library?s approach to reproducing historical materials and
lists the types of digital formats selected by the Library for this
purpose. It includes discussion of formats for pictorial materials,
textual materials, maps, sound recordings, and moving-image materials,
and is illustrated with examples. Comments or questions about this paper
can be directed to Carl Fleischhauer at cfle@xxxxxxxx

The paper appears as a part of the Background and Technical Documents
Section of the American Memory website.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

In the coming months, documents in this section will be updated or newly
released and such changes will be announced.