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Managing Electronic Records and Assets: A Working Bibliography
3. Digital Images
- Glossaries
- Format Standards
- Metadata Standards for Images
- Networks and Communities
- Organizations
- Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks
Glossaries
Glossary of Image Terminology and Acronyms (from TASI)
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/glossary/images_glossary.html
Format Standards
Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Sustainability of Digital Formats
http://digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/still.shtml
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), W3C, 2003
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
GIF and PNG are the two main choices of graphic format that can be used on the Web to represent simple graphics, schemas or logos.
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html.
The PDF format was designed to allow people to exchange and view electronic documents independently of the environment in which they were created.
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/index.html
TIFF is a popular public domain raster file formats.
Metadata Standards for Images
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
http://www.vraweb.org/ccoweb/cco/index.html
“CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalog records. CCO is designed to promote good descriptive cataloging, shared documentation, and enhanced end-user access. A project of the Visual Resources Association.”
Metadata for Images in XML Markup (MIX)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/
MIX is a schema for a “set of technical data elements required to manage digital image collections.” The schema is currently in draft status.
Visual Resources Association Core Categories (VRA Core)
http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/index.html
VRA Core is “a single element set that can be applied as many times as necessary to create records to describe works of visual culture as well as the images that document them.”
Networks and Communities
IMAGELIB Listserv
http://www.elearn.arizona.edu/imagelib/
“IMAGELIB is a listserv that was started in 1994 as a way for librarians and information technologists to share ideas, ask questions, and report on imaging projects. There are approximately 950 subscribers from around the world representing a variety of disciplines and professions. Their common interest is imaging. Members use the listserv to ask for advice, share release news about projects, announce job vacancies, and post information about conferences.”
SAA Visual Materials Section
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/VMhome.html
Archivists who administer (collect, arrange, preserve, describe and interpret) still photographs, moving images, art, and graphic materials. The Section has a listserv
SAA Visual Materials Cataloging & Access Roundtable
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/vmcar.html
Provides a forum for archivists with visual collections to discuss cataloging and access issues.
Organizations
Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/index.html
The Technical Advisory Service for Images is a JISC funded service. It provides advice and guidance to the UK's Further and Higher Education community on the issues of: creating digital images; delivering digital images to users; using digital images to support teaching, learning and research; and managing both small and large scale digitisation projects.
Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks
Conversion Specifications for Contracted Scanning Services, National Digital Library Program, 1996
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/conversion.html
“NDLP Requests for Proposals for scanning and text conversion of original paper documents, microfilm, and pictorial materials.”
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, Research Libraries Group, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, July 2000, http://www.rlg.org/visguides/index.html
Kenney, Anne R., Louis H. Sharpe II, et al., Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements Printed Illustrations, Preservation Directorate, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/illbk/ibs.htm
“The Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation and Picture Elements, Incorporated undertook a joint study for the Library of Congress to determine the best means for digitizing the vast array of illustrations used in 19th and early 20th century commercial publications.”
Kenney, Anne R. and Stephen Chapman, Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Ithaca, N.Y.: Dept. of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library, 1996.
Kenny, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger, editors and principal authors. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000.
(See also http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html)
Library of Congress Technical Standards for Digital Conversion of Text and Graphic Materials
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techStandards.pdf
The Library is currently revising a series of standards and best practices to guide the Library's digital conversion efforts. These documents detail the current digitization standards followed by the Library. (For change history, see last page.)
Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images, National Archives and Records Administration, 2004.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.html
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