HATII
Digitisation
Summer School 2001
Links to
Digitisation Resources & Sites
Archives
Libraries
Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
Articles and Readings
Journals
Digitisation Summer
School 2001
HATII
Glasgow University
HATII
Digitisation
Summer School 2001
Links to
Digitisation Resources & Sites
Archives
Libraries
Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
Articles and Readings
Journals
Digitisation Summer
School 2001
HATII
Glasgow University
HATII
Digitisation
Summer School 2001
Links to
Digitisation Resources & Sites
Archives
Libraries
Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
Articles and Readings
Journals
Digitisation Summer
School 2001
HATII
Glasgow University
HATII
Digitisation
Summer School 2001
Links to
Digitisation Resources & Sites
Archives
Libraries
Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
Articles and Readings
Journals
Digitisation Summer
School 2001
HATII
Glasgow University
Archives
Libraries
Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
Articles and Readings
Journals
Digitisation Summer
School 2001
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The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
Digitisation Summer School 2001
LINKS TO DIGITISATION RESOURCES AND SITES
symbols like this
and are
related to activities described in the practical worksheets.
Archives
- Archivo General
de Indias, located in Seville, Spain - important
repository of documents on the discovery, exploration, and administration
of the Americas by the Spaniards
- ARKive : Bristol
http://arkive.uwe.ac.uk/
- Blake - William Blake
Archive http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html

- Bodleian Library Broadside
Ballads http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
- Beazley Archive,
Oxford University
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/Script2/default.htm (Based
on the original archive of photographs (c.250,000), notes, drawings
and books relating to ancient Greek art of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970),
it was acquired by the University in the 1960's, and has been catalogued
and greatly expanded since then. Includes the Pottery Database of Athenian
figure-decorated vases of the 7th-4th centuries BC, as well as
IT projects on other aspects of classical art)

- COLLAGE http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
20,000 Images from the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery
- Duderstadt Municipal
Archive project, Germany http://www.archive.geschichte.mpg.de/duderstadt/dud-e.htm
- joint project with the Max-Planck-Institut
für Geschichte in Göttingen, between 1996 and 1999, use of grey-scale
images to digitise the entire archives of a small German town
- English Episcopal Acta
Database www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/eea.html
(By publishing the output of the bishops chanceries, this series
sheds light on the development of administrative and legal practice
in the medieval Church. Innovations and changes in the underlying principles
of ecclesiastical government can only be detected by studying the diplomatic
form)
- Glasgow University Archives
and Business Record Centre http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/default.html
- InfoNORTH Virtually New
- Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation Projects
in Local Authorities, Libraries and Archives http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/intro.html
- Lincolnshire Archives
- England - http://www.lincs-archives.com/
- Museum of Victoria Photographic
Archive Project, Australia http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/Scitech/pap.html
- Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

- Public Record Office
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
- Whistler Centre
- The Correspondence Project http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/

Libraries
- Alexandria: A digital library for geographically-referenced materials http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu
- Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
- American Memory from the Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
- Berkeley Digital Library
Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging

- Bibliothèque Nationale de France http://www.bnf.fr/
- Digitisation of Library Materials: Report of the
Concentration Meeting & Workshop Luxembourg, 14.12.99 http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/digit.pdf
- Bowes Museum http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk

- British Library www.bl.uk
- Columbia University Libraries - Oversized Color Images Project: Addressing Issues of
Preservation and Access http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/

- Cornell University Library Dept. of
Preservation and Conservation http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) http://www.clir.org/
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs - British Academy John
Foxe Project http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/bajfp/index.html

- GUL Special Collections Home Page http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/index.html
- GU Special Collections
Hill & Adamson Collection (site in progress) http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/hillandadamson/home.html

- Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
- An eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) Project by the Universities of Birmingham,
Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
- JSTOR project http://www.jstor.org/
- LION - Chadwyck-Healey Literature Online, available via GUL http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/Resources/Databases/index.html
(then click on LION) or direct at http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/
- Muse - Project Muse, John
Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library - initiative
enabling worldwide networked access to the full text of over 40 of the Press's scholarly
journals. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
- Museum
of Contemporary Art, San Diego http://www.mcasandiego.org/

- National Libraries Treasures of Europe http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/treasures/
- New York Public Library - Digital Library http://digital.nypl.org/
- RLG Research Libraries Group http://www.thames.rlg.org/toc.html
- Vatican Library materials - article
"Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials" http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
- Victoria State
Library Multimedia Catalogue - paintings, sketches, photographs, postcards
http://slv950.slv.vic.gov.au/webpac-bin/wgbroker?07250011123361+-access+top.image#what
- Yale University Library Project "Open Book" http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pobweb.htm
- University of Virginia Special Collections http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/

Digitisation of Arts and Heritage
Assets (projects, institutions, etc)
Funding for Cultural Projects (often
including digitisation and ICT applications)
Articles, Readings, and other things
- A Few Scanning Tips: a very useful
site with some good information for all levels http://scantips.com/
- Besser, Howard - Trant, Jennifer "Introduction
to Imaging" http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover.html
- Chapman, S. et.
al., 1997. 'Selection for Digitizing: A Decision Making Matrix', May
1997 http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/digitization/matrix.html
- Columbia University Libraries - Oversized
Color Images Project: Addressing Issues of Preservation and Access http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/
- Columbia University
Libraries, 1997. 'Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects'
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria
- Copyright Law in the Digital
World - R. Baron article http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm
- Day, M. 1997. 'Metadata
for Preservation', CEDARS Access Issues Working Group http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html
- Digital
Watermarking Bibliography http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Graphics/watermarking.html
- Digital Watermarking:
Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december97/ibm/12lotspiech.html
- Digitisation of Library Materials:
Report of the Concentration Meeting & Workshop,Luxembourg, 14.12.99 http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/digit.pdf
- EU DLM Guidelines on best
practices for using electronic information http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html
- ILEJ - papers on the project http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
- Image Permanence Institute - Recommendations
for the Evaluation of Digital Images http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html
- Kenney, A. R.
1998. 'Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/com/comfin.html
- Kenney, A.R
and Rieger, O.Y., 1998. 'Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and
Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators' http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/kodak-htm.htm
- Kiernan, K. `Digital
Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts'
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
- Lee, S. 1999. Scoping the Future of the
University of Oxford’s Digital Library Collections. Final Report
of study funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Oxford, University of
Oxford’s Humanities Computing Unit, September 1999 http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/
- Library
of Congress Manuscript Digitisation Demonstration Project, Final Report by Sharpe, Louis,
H., Ott, Michael D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998 http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf
- OCLC/NCSA
Metadata Workshop Report (Dublin Core) http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
- Oppenheim,
C. 1997, 'Copyright in the electronic age'. UNESCO World Information
Report. Unesco, Paris http://www.unesco.org/webworld/com_inf_reports/wirenglish/chap26.pdf
- Parry, D. 1998. Virtually
New - Creating the Digital Collection: a review of digitisation projects
in local authority libraries and archives. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/
- Puglia, S. 1999. 'Creating
Permanent and Durable Information: Physical Media and Storage Standards'
http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf
- Research Library Group Working Group
on Preservation Issues of Metadata http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html
- Reilly, J.M., & Frey, F.S. 1996.
Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic,
Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html
- Schantz, H. F. 1996. 'Optical
Character Recognition -- The Mature Technology with the Brilliant Future'
http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html
- Sharpe,
Louis, H., Ott, Michael D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998. Library of Congress Manuscript
Digitisation Demonstration Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf
- Smith, A.1999. 'Why
Digitize?', Washington D.C., Council on Library and Information Resources.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html
- Structured Glossary of Technical
Terms - Commission for Preservation & Access http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/lynn/index.html
- Tanner,
S., and Robinson, B. 1998. JISC Image Digitisation Initiative
(JIDI):
Feasibility Study (Final Report) http://heds.herts.ac.uk/Guidance/JIDI_fs.pdf
- Thompson, C. 1997. 'OCR/ICR
Accuracy and Acceptance - What Does it Mean?' http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html
- Townsend, S., Chappell, C. &
Struijvé, O. 1999. Digitising History: A Guide to Creating
Digital Resources from Historical Documents. AHDS Guides to Good
Practice http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html
- Toward on-line, worldwide access to
Vatican Library materials" http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
- VADS Metadata Workshop Report http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html
- Z39.50 Made
Simple http://www.dstc.edu.au/DDU/projects/Z3950/zsimple.htm
Optical Music Recognition http://www.ips.id.ethz.ch/~roth/omr.html
Journals
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page (restricted access)
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