Digital Projects – selected links
General:
Cornell University ‐ Digital Preservation Tutorial
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/dpm‐eng/eng_index.html
Digital Library Federation – Preservation
http://www.diglib.org/preserve.htm
Library of Congress: Digital Preservation
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information): gateway to international digital preservation resources
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
Standards
15 Dublin Core Element Attributes
http://www.bridges.state.mn.us/dcore.html
BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) ‐ Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (June 2008)
http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital‐imaging‐bp.pdf
Digital Preservation at Harvard: standards, guidelines, best practices
http://preserve.harvard.edu/digpres/index.html
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) ‐ Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival
Materials for Electronic Access (June 2004)
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.pdf
Digital imaging
6 Totally Essential Photoshop Skills Even Your Mom Should Know
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/essential_photoshop_skills?page=0%2C0
Grants
Council on Library and Information Resources: Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives
http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/index.html
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
http://www.imls.gov/
IMLS: Connecting to Collections
http://www.imls.gov/collections/index.htm
Continuing Education Sources
ACRL 2009 Pre‐conference – Discovering Digitization: Defining Your Path to Digital Access
http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/discoveringdigitization.cfm
Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries – Syracuse University
http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/graduate/mls/digitallibraries/

Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management – University of Arizona
http://sir.arizona.edu/digin/
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
http://www.nedcc.org/home.php
OCLC: Online training from U.S. regional service providers
http://www.oclc.org/community/education/regional/usa/default.htm
Society of American Archivists
http://www.archivists.org/
Copyright
Crash Course in Copyright – University of Texas
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
Copyright Advisory Network: “A community of librarians, copyright scholars, policy wonks.”
http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/
Digital Copyright Slider – ALA office of Information Technology Policy
http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters: a central place for library staff to search for, and find, digitally
preserved materials.
http://www.oclc.org/digitalregistry/default.htm
US Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/
Software mentioned in this presentation
ABBYY FineReader (Optical Character Recognition Software)
http://finereader.abbyy.com/
Adobe Photoshop
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/
ContentDM digital collection management software
http://www.contentdm.com/
Greenstone Digital Library Software
http://www.greenstone.org/
Nelinet: directory of digital library software (not mentioned, but overview of what’s available)
http://www.nelinet.net/digital/resources/software.htm
Maureen M. Knapp | LSU Health Sciences Center Library | Digitizing a newspaper clippings collection | MLA Annual
2009 | mknapp@lsuhsc.edu | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/