Resources

Links to Important Digital Imaging and Metadata Specifications and Best Practices

Digital Library Consortiums and Initiatives

Digital Library Federation
http://www.diglib.org/

Council on Library and Information Resources
http://www.clir.org/

CIMI
http://www.cimi.org/

Making of America, Part II
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/

Metadata and other Standards

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Standards
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards.html

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) - Metadata Standards
http://www.nbii.gov/datainfo/standards/

Metadata Standards Crosswalks- Getty Center for Arts & Humanities
http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/crosswalk.htm

Dublin Core
http://purl.oclc.org/dc/

Taxonomic Data Working Group
http://www.tdwg.org

Association of Systematics Collection's Information Modeling Project for Biological Collections
http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/asc-cnc

The Species Analyst
http://habanero.nhm.ukans.edu

Taxonomic Authorities and Thesauri

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
http://www.itis.usda.gov/plantproj/itis/index.html

Library of Congress Thesauri for Graphical Materials
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/cataloging.html

The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/att/

The Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

Imaging and Text Conversion Specifications

• Image Capture

Library of Congress RFP97-9 For Digital Images of Pictorial Materials
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/prpsal9/toca.html

ICC Color Specifications
http://www.helios.de/PDFs/ICC-tag.pdf

JPEG 2000
http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.htm

• Textual Conversion and Mark-up

XML (Extensible Markup Language)
http://www.w3.org/XML/

RDF (Resource Description Framework)
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium
http://www.tei-c.org/

Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei/uvatei.html

Library of Congress’ EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
http://www.oasis-open.org/

Multimedia Links

MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21
http://www.cselt.it/mpeg/

RTP and RTSP for streaming media over the web
http://sunsite.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1889.html

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) for web audio and video
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Relevant Journals

International Journal on Digital Libraries
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1432-5012
(Access is restricted to subscribers.)

Project Planning

The AMNH-DL staff have devised a Planning Checklist and a series of Working Groups to facilitate the planning and production phases of the Lang-Chapin Expedition pilot project. They can serve as effective models in the planning, coordination and execution of any digital library project by a large institution.

Planning Checklist for a Digital Archive
http://library.amnh.org/digital/checklist.html

Working Groups:

• Administrative
• Information Technology
• Content
• Cataloging and Metadata
• Database/Interface/Web
• Geography

A Digital Imaging Planning Primer
http://library.amnh.org/diglib/resources/primer.html

This is an executive summary of issues one should consider before starting a digital imaging project.

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
http://www.rlg.org/visguides/

The Digital Library Federation and the Research Libraries Group has created a series of  guides to assist museum professionals in evaluating digital imaging projects. These comprehensive guides are written for those who have already decided what they will digitize and what purposes the digital images will serve. They include project planning, scanner selection, imaging system set-up, and the resulting digital masters.

Reading List

Consult the Digital Reference Shelf for a list of books relevant to the planning and implementation of digital library projects. Clicking on individual titles in this list will display the catalog record and status of the item. Use the buttons "next page" and "previous page" to scroll through the list.