HATII Digitisation Summer School 2001

Links to Digitisation Resources & Sites

Libraries

Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets

Funding of digitisation in cultural sector

Articles and Readings

Journals

• Archives
• Libraries and Museums
• Digitisation of Arts and Heritage Assets
• Funding of digitisation in cultural sector
• Articles and Readings (including links from the Reading List)
• Journals

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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)

• AMICO - Art Museums Network USA http://www.amn.org/AMICO/ 
• American Memory from the Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html 
• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) www.ahds.ac.uk
• Beazley Archive, Oxford University http://lannes.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/script/ba.html (see information above under Archives)
• Berkely Digital Library SunSITE http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
• Berkeley Digital Lib - Imaging Information (DL SunSITE) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/ 
• British Museum Database http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/index.html
• California Heritage Digital Image Access Project http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
• Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) http://www.chin.gc.ca/ 
• Collage Image Database  http://collage.nhil.com/
• Croydon Museums Riesco Collection - Home Page (www.croydon.gov.uk/riesco/index.asp)
• English Episcopal Acta Database www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/eea.html (see comments above under archives)
• EU DLM Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html 
• Fine Arts Museum San Francisco -Imagebase QBIC http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs - British Academy John Foxe Project http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/bajfp/index.html
•  French Ministry of Culture (French Museums Biblio Database) http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd/index.html 
• Getty Information Institute, California http://www.ahip.getty.edu/ 
• Guggenheim http://www.guggenheim.org/
• Howard Besser's Image/Multimedia Database Resources http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/ 
• Imperial War Museum - Visual Arts Data Service in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum Art Department project to mount their Art Collection on-line. Demonstrator available for public access at: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/av-index.html
• Images of England http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/
• J. Paul Getty Museum, California http://www.getty.edu/museum/ 
• The National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ 
• Music Performance Research Centre http://www1.mailbox.co.uk/www.musicpreserved.org/ (A unique music archive at the Barbican Centre, within the Barbican Library. Legendary artists can be heard or seen in recordings of live performances given from the 1930s to the present day)
• Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
• Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME)
• Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of Scotland (http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/)
• SCRAN Home Page www.scran.ac.uk
• Stanford - Conservation OnLine http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging/ 
• Research Library Group DigiNews http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews
• The Tate Gallery, London http://www.tate.org.uk  (basic information about the collections)
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, School of Music, Indiana University http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/tmlintro.htm (database that will eventually contain the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance)

Funding for Cultural Projects (often including digitisation and ICT applications)

• British Library http://www.bl.uk/ (Check Digital Library and then Initiatives for Access)
• Heritage Lottery Fund http://www.hlf.org.uk/ 
• SCRAN Project Funding Page http://www.scran.ac.uk/projects/
• MAGNETS WP4: VASARI EU & Culture information http://www.brameur.co.uk/vasari/magnets/wp4/section2.html 
• New Opportunities Fund http://www.nof.org.uk/
• WendySudbury - Cultural heritage & EU funding http://www.btinternet.com/~camangroup/ECwebsite97.html 

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

• Cultural & Heritage Informatics Quarterly http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA1042-1467
• DigiNews by RLG  http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
• D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/dlib/ 

See also the Reading List page (restricted access)