Resources for Digital Projects
Alaska's Digital Archive
http://vilda.alaska.edu/
"presents a wealth of historical photographs, oral histories, moving images, documents, and other materials from libraries, museums, and institutions throughout our state."
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
Berkeley Electronic Press
http://www.bepress.com/repositories.html
Canto - Digital Asset Management Software
http://www.canto.com/
Colorado Digitization Program
http://www.cdpheritage.org/
Concerto (formerly MediaDB)
Open source software developed at Middlebury College
http://et.middlebury.edu/et/new/software/mediadb/
Connecticut History Online
http://www.cthistoryonline.com/
"is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society."
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Well developed proprietary software; large customer base; supported by OCLC
Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook
by Stuart D. Lee, c2001
Main Library Z681.3 D53 L44 2001
Digital Library of Appalchia
http://www.aca-dla.org/default.htm
Digital Library of Georgia
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/
An initiative based at the University of Georgia Libraries that works together with Georgia's libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of cultural heritage to provide access to the cultural and historical resources of the state of Georgia.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://www.dublincore.org/
EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
http://www.loc.gov/ead/
Fedora
http://www.fedora.info/
Open source software developed at Cornell and the University of Virginia Library
Florida Memory Project
http://www.floridamemory.com/
Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (IMLS)
http://www.imls.gov/scripts/text.cgi?/pubs/forumframework.htm
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Guidance for selecting materials for digitisation
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (NEDCC)
http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
Kansas Digital Library
http://www.kansasdigital.org/
"electronic information resources uniquely Kansan or unique to Kansas."
Kentuckiana Digital Library
http://kdl.kyvl.org/
"The Kentuckiana Digital Library is built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning through the establishment of access to shared digital archival collections in the state of Kentucky."
Library of Congress Subject Headings
http://classweb.loc.gov/
LIS Digitization Committee Final Report (September, 2002)
http://maozi.middlebury.edu/finalreport2002.doc
Louisiana Digital Library
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/
"Louisiana's doorway to the unique cultural and historical resources of Louisiana's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions."
Luna Insight
http://www.lunaimaging.com/
Maine Memory
http://www.mainememory.net
"The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations."
MARC Standards
http://www.loc.gov/marc/
MDID (Madison Digital Image Database)
http://mdid.org/
Open source software developed at James Madison University
"Software for Teaching and Learning with Digital Images"
Metadata Categories for the Description of Works of Art
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/index.html
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standards (METS)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library.
Metadata Standards Crosswalks
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html
Minnesota Digital Library Project
http://www.mndigital.org/
Developed by "a group of content providers from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums in Minnesota."
Mountain West Digital Library
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/mwdl/
Utah Academic Library Consortium
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
Main Library Z681.3 D53 M68 2000
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial
NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/guidelines_for_digitizing_archival_materials.pdf
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org
New Jersey Digital Highway
http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/
"The Highway will bring together digitized versions of historical and cultural treasures from our libraries, museums, and historical collections."
NINCH Guide to Good Practice
http://nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
North Carolina ECHO
http://www.ncecho.com/
"doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions."
North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/ncc/historyfiction/
Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library
http://www.nmrls.org/nmdl/
"a project to enhance access to an ever-growing digital collection of items, located in or items related to northeast Massachusetts."
Online Archive of California
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
"brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives."
Sirsi Hyperion
http://www.sirsi.com/Sirsiproducts/hyperion.html
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
http://www.tei-c.org/
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/
University of Washington Digital Collections
http://content.lib.washington.edu/Stereoweb/index.html
Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
Virtually Missouri
http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/
"Virtually Missouri is designed to provide centralized access to the special collections of Missouri's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums."
VRA Core 3 (Visual Resources Association)
http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm
