[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (65)
Subject: BEST PRACTICE: "DIGITIZING HISTORY" Guide Published in
UK
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (49)
Subject: PRESERVATION: RLG Preservation Report Available
[3] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (60)
Subject: April 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:32:08 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: BEST PRACTICE: "DIGITIZING HISTORY" Guide Published in UK
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
April 19 1999
DIGITIZING HISTORY: New Guide Published by UK History Data Service
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html>http://hds.essex.
ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html
Part of Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series
"Guides to Good Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources"
<http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html.
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:05:07 +0100 ()
>>From: Neil Beagrie <neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk>
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New Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
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The History Data Service is pleased to announce the web publication of
Digitising History, a new guide to creating, documenting and preserving
digital resources derived from historical documents. The guide is available
at
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html>http://hds.essex.
ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html and will also
be published by Oxbow Books later in the year. For more information, please
contact Oxbow Books, email: oxbow@oxbowbooks.com, +44 (0) 1865) 241249, fax:
++44 (0) 1865) 794449, URL:
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/>http://www.oxbowbooks.com/
The guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and organisations
involved with, or planning, the computerisation of historical source
documents. It aims to recommend good practice and standards that are generic
and relevant to a range of data creation situations, from student projects
through to large-scale research projects.
The guide focuses on the creation of tabular data which can be used in
databases, spreadsheets or statistics packages. Many of the guidelines are,
however, more widely applicable.
The guide includes a glossary and a bibliography of recommended reading, and
offers guidance about:
* Effectively designing and managing a data creation project.
* Transferring historical source documents into digital form and designing a
database.
* Choosing appropriate data formats and ensuring that a digital resource can
be preserved without significant information loss.
* Documenting a data creation project.
The guide is one of three commissioned by the History Data Service as part
of the Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series Guides to Good
Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources
<http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html. The
series aims to provide guidance
about applying recognised good practice and standards to the creation and
use of digital resources in the arts and humanities.
Cressida Chappell, Acting Head, History Data Service, Data Archive,
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, Phone +44 (0)1206
873984, Fax +44 (0)1206 872003, email cress@essex.ac.uk,
<http://hds.essex.ac.uk/>http://hds.essex.ac.uk/
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
<http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:32:46 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: PRESERVATION: RLG Preservation Report Available
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
April 19, 1999
"Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions"
<<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/p
reserv/digpres.html from Europe>.
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:59:16 +0100 ()
>>From: Neil Beagrie <neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk>
>To: ahds-all@mailbase.ac.uk
RLG Digital Preservation Report
The report "Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member
Institutions" is available on the RLG Web site
<<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/
preserv/digpres.html from Europe>.
This report contains the results of the 1998 study of RLG members'
current practices, needs, and plans for preserving their
growing collections of digital holdings.
The study, conducted during 1998 by Margaret Hedstrom,
Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of
Michigan, and Sheon Montgomery, Graduate Research Assistant, is
based on an extensive written survey - to which 54 members
responded - plus phone interviews with over a dozen collection
administrators. The result is an up-to-date, carefully interpreted
picture of the current state of digital preservation
and the key concerns and expectations from an
international cross-section of the RLG membership.
The report is available in two versions: an HTML document for
online browsing or a PDF document optimized for printing.
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Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076
Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080
The Executive
Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
<http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:33:18 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: April 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
April 19, 1999
D-LIB MAGAZINE: April Issue Available
<http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/
The latest issue of D-LIB Magazine, the invaluable monthly magazine of digital
library research published by CNRI, is now available. Apart from the useful
Opinion piece by David Bearman, "Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of
Electronic Records," and stories cited below, D-Lib's "Clips & Pointers"
section has some particularly useful citations.
David Green
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>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:26:24 -0400
>From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
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CONTENTS:
Opinion:
Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records
David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
Project Briefing:
The German Digital Libraries Project
Diann Rusch-Feja, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Hans
Jurgen Becker, State and University Library of Lower Saxony Goettingen
Stories:
The National Engineering Education Delivery System: A Digital Library
for Engineering Education
Brandon Muramatsu and Alice M. Agogino, University of California,
Berkeley
Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks
for Linking
Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent,
Belgium
Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a
Generic Linking Solution
Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent,
Belgium
The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative April 1999
Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Distributed Information and Computation in Scientific and Engineering
Environments
Nicholas M. Patrikalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Paul J.
Fortier, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Yannis E. Ioannidis,
University of Athens; Christos N. Nikolaou, University of Crete; Allan
R. Robinson, Harvard University; Jarek R. Rossignac, Georgia Institute
of Technology; Alvar Vinacua, Polytechnic University of Catalonia; and
Stephen L. Abrams, Harvard University Library
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
<http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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