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GENERAL RESOURCES ON CREATING DIGITAL WORKS
The following works each provide information regarding creating a variety of
digital resources. Library of Congress's Digital Formats for Content
Reproduction may be of particular interest to those trying to decide
on data formats for digitized resources, while the NINCH and MLA works
provide a wider discussion of best practices in creaing electronic works.
- The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
An extremely comprehensive guide to current best practices for creation of
a variety of digital resources, including text resources, image resources,
metadata, and controlled subject vocabularies, as well as information
on intellectual property issues and more general digitization guides.
- Digital
Formats for Content Reproductions
A paper outlining Library of Congress's selection of data formats for
a variety of online resources, including pictorial materials, textual
materials, maps, audio materials and video materials, in the American
Memory project. It includes some discussion of the reasoning behind
selection of particular formats.
- Modern
Language Association of America Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly
Editions
MLA's guidelines for the production of electronic scholarly editions,
including recommendations on encoding, quality control, content, etc.
- Digitizing
Images and Texts
A summary page from U.C. Berkeley's Sunsite on image and text digitization
projects. Good one stop shopping for most information on this topic.
- Diffuse
-- Library Information Interchange Standards
A site devoted to standards for information interchange between libraries,
including metadata standards such as MARC, document markup formats (ISO
12083), ILL protocols and Z39.50.
- Diffuse
-- Archiving Standards
Standards relating to digital information and archiving, including Archival
Interchange Formats, Encoded Archival Description, International Standard
Archival Description, etc.
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