Historical Collections for the National
Digital Library:
Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress
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(part 2).
Footnotes & References
- Providing
Government Information on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS, by
W. Bruce Croft and Robert Cook of the Center for Intelligent Information
Retrieval and Dean Wilder of the Library of Congress was presented at
the Second International Conference on the Theory and
Practice of Digital Libraries at Austin, Texas, June 11-13, 1995.
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- A
Framework for Distributed Digital Object
Services by
Robert Kahn of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
and
Robert Wilensky of the
University of California at Berkeley
is a paper that emerged from experiences with the CS-TR project
(1992-1996), in
which five leading computer science departments explored issues
relating to the development of a distributed
architecture for a library of Computer Science Technical Reports. A prototype
system that builds on the CS-TR experience is the Networked Computer
Science Technical Report Library (
NCSTRL, pronounced "ancestral"),
presently incorporating reports at approximately 50 institutions.
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- The Federal Theatre Project was a 1930s program of
the Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for theater
professionals. IBM is supporting the digitization of materials
associated with three plays:
- several productions of Macbeth, including the so-called
"voodoo" Macbeth
directed by Orson Welles in Harlem;
- Power,
one of the "living newspaper" productions presenting
contemporary issues, in this case, the concern as to whether
enough electricity would be generated and made available at reasonable
prices to the average citizen;
- and productions of Dr. Faustus, by Marlowe, including one by
Orson Welles.
Materials already digitized include posters, programs, set and costume
designs, and photographs.
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text or URLs for links to other resources
These URLs are listed in order of "appearance" in the article.
- American Memory home page for historical collections from the National
Digital Library Program at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
- THOMAS, Library of Congress service providing access to current
legislative information at
http://thomas.loc.gov/
- CORDS, experimental prototype for copyright registration and deposit of
digital items, described at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/cords.html
- A full list of the American Memory collections available in May 1996
is at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.html
- Sample finding aids are being encoded by the Library of Congress using the
proposed standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). For readers
with an SGML viewer, these will be available at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ead/eadsamp.html
- You can search across all American Memory collections at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
- The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
has a home page at
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/
- A sample subject listing from an American Memory collection
(photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company) at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detrindex1.html
- Home page for the American Memory collection of
Life Histories gathered during the Federal
Writers' Project, a project of the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) in the 1930s, at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
- Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland
at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, developed by the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library of
Congress, at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/toc.html
- Home page for the American Memory collection of books and pamphlets
from the library of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/rbnawsahtml/nawshom.html
- Home page for the American Memory collection of
African-American Pamphlets, at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
- Project Management Enterprises, Inc., at
http://www.pmei.com/index.html are
the developers of LEXICO/2, described at
http://www.pmei.com/lexico/lexico.html
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary, the thesaurus of the
Congressional Research Service, at
http://thomas.loc.gov/liv/livterms.html
- The Alexandria Project, developing a digital library for
geographically-referenced
information, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at
http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/
- Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines at
http://etext.virginia.edu/TEI.html
- The Country Studies/Area Handbook Program, from the Federal Research
Division of the Library of Congress, at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/country.html
- Components of the Library's hierarchical storage management system
are described at
http://www1.ibmlink.ibm.com/HTML/SPEC/g2256601.html
(for IBM's 3494 Tape Library Dataserver)
and at
http://www.storage.ibm.com/storage/software/adsm/adsmhome.htm
(for ADSM -- ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager).
- CORBA,
the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is introduced at
http://ruby.omg.org/corba.htm
- The Inter-Language Unification (ILU) system, from Xerox Corporation,
is described at
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html
- SHORE, the persistent object system from the University
of Wisconsin, is described at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/shore/
- VisualInfo, a document management system from IBM, is described at
http://www.software.ibm.com/workgroup/image/vi.htm
- The announcement of the National Digital Library Federation is at
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/cpa/digfed/digfed1.html
- The home page of the Commission on Preservation and Access is at
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/cpa/index.html
- The Museum Education Site-Licensing (MESL) project is described at
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/ahip/muse.html
- Home page for the American Memory collection of
photographs by Carl Van Vechten, at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vvhome.html
- Eleven pilot projects initiated by the G-7 program on the Global
Information Society are listed, with progress reports, at
http://www.ispo.cec.be/g7/projidx.html
- The proposal to build a prototype global library, Bibliotheca
Universalis, as part of the G-7 Electronic Libraries Project is at
http://www.culture.fr/culture/bibliuni/engbu1.htm
- NDLP Learning Page at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
- Ameritech's press release announcing a donation to the Library of
Congress to support a competitive grant program to fund digitization of
other Americana collections is at
http://www.ameritech.com/news/contributions/loc/index.html
- A list of selected future American Memory titles is at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amfuture.html
- The article by Croft, Cook, and Wilder, entitled Providing
Government Information on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS is
online at
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/dlpaper.html
- The article by Kahn and Wilensky, entitled
A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services,
is online at
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/home/cstr/arch/k-w.html
- The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) project is described at
http://WWW.CNRI.Reston.VA.US/home/cstr.html
- The Networked Computer
Science Technical Reports
Library (NCSTRL) project is described at
http://WWW.ncstrl.org/
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