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COLLECTION GUIDELINES

Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
The full final report for the HEDS study. The purpose of this study (on behalf of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) is to investigate some of the underlying assumptions being made in the move from previously analog photographic services into the realm of digital capture and delivery, in particular to look at how marketable, cost efficient and income-stable the new digital services and resources are in comparison with previous methods (which in many places still exist alongside the newer digital developments). The study, through interviews and comparative modelling of costs and fees charged, illuminated the differences in practice for the sale of analog versus digital formats.
NISO Draft Standard for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
A new data dictionary Z39.87, has been released for community review defining a standard set of technical metadata elements for digital images. Such a standard should enable users "to develop, exchange, and interpret digital image files.
NISO RFP Writer's Guide to Standards for Library Systems
a manual intended to aid library system Request for Proposal (RFP) writers and evaluators in understanding the relevant standards and determining a software product's compliance with standards. The RFP Writer's Guide to Standards for Library Systems identifies critical standards in the areas of Bibliographic Formats, Record Structure, Character Sets, Exchange Media, Serials Identifiers, Binding, Circulation Protocols, Barcodes, Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Electronic Documents, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Information Retrieval, Metadata, and Web Access. For each standard, the applicability to libraries is described, sample RFP language is provided, and compliance assessment issues are discussed.
Networked Digital Reference Services Workshop Report
This NISO workshop was held April 25-26, 2001 at the Library of Congress. It was convened to explore what standards are needed to facilitate the development and implementation of Digital Networked Reference Services that can operate across institutional and geographic boundaries and to advise NISO on the prospect of successfully introducing standards in this new arena of library service.
THE EVIDENCE IN HAND: THE ARTIFACT IN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Librarians and archivists are left to make difficult decisions about how much and what can be acquired, preserved, and made accessible in meaningful ways. This problem is addressed in a new report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), entitled The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections. CLIR created the task force of scholars, librarians, and archivists in 1999. Its members were asked to articulate a framework for making or evaluating institutional policies for the retention of published materials and archival or unpublished materials in their original form.
oais-implementers - List
RLG has created this list and its supporting web pages to facilitate communication and provide information about OAIS reference model implementations, applications, and related standards development.
 
VRTG Section 4
A summary of the approach the Peabody museum at Harvard took to organize their images
Image Collection Guidelines
Getty Standards Program Home Page
The Getty vocabulary databases
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings (FDA Guide):
LOOKSEE: Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing
Collected links to excellent articles on imaging and management
Cafe con Leche XML News, and Resources
The SGML/XML Web Page - Home Page
mda Software Survey
a survey of museum collections management software
The VISION Project:
The VISION project is a collaboration of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the Getty Information Institute, and the Research Libraries Group. It aims to create standard, online descriptions of slides and photographs of works of art.
VRA Core Categories
A guide in descriptive terms for images
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging July 2000 ©
published the guides on the Web with RLG. These five guides are designed to serve the growing community turning to imaging as a way to provide greater access to their visual resources while simultaneously preserving the original materials. They will be updated periodically. Your comments are encouraged by DLF and RLG.
NEDCC OFFERS ITS DIGITAL HANDBOOK ON-LINE
The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the on-line availability of its latest publication Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. The new Web resource was funded by a Library Leadership Grant from The Institute for Museum and Library Services. NEDCC receives major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Handbook was published to meet the needs of libraries and museums, and other collections holding institutions for basic information about planning and managing digital projects.
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
The Getty Standards Program's introduction to selecting metadata to decribe images.
Metadata Elements for Object Description and Representation
A Case Report from a Digitized Historical Fashion Collection Project
List of Mailing Lists on Archives, Records Management and Related Subjects
The Colorado Digitization Project
example of guidelines and standards
James Madison University’s web site
For those beginning to plan web based image libraries we encourage you to look here as it describes their process and solutions.
Technology Grant News
The grants are from technology corporations and their foundations and the government looking to support or build a technology workforce plus the ability of technology for society and the future of libraries, nonprofits and communities.
The Library of Congress - Standards
Several of the following are key standards used in the information community that are maintained by the Library of Congress. Their Web pages supply information on their maintenance and use. Other links below connect to information on the Library's collection of standards and key standards-settings organizations.
Thesaurus National Library of Canada
a web page on terminology used in the federal government of Canada . It includes links to thesauri, classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, geographic names, subject clusters and taxonomies.
CIMI on their SPECTRUM
they took the UK Standard for describing museum objects and turned it into an XML schema.
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
standard for encoding records in XML and bundling them with digital surrogates is Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) - METS can co-ordinate with a number of related descriptive and administrative standards (technical, rights, etc),
MCN - Standards & Controlled Vocabulary SIG page
Another great list of resources.
Visual Resources Association – Resources
The VRA resource section includes links to resources concerning the creation and management of digital collections that are found only on this site
Licensing Digital Information
An Archive of the LIBLICENSE Project which was established to provide information about how effectively to contract for electronic information resources.
New York School of Interior Design Online Cataloging Manual
In this manual will be found rules and interpretations of the standards set out in the various resources, authorities and vocabularies found on the resources page.  This manual is organized by field in the IDOL database. This page is designed as a basic cataloging manual for contributing catalog records to the New York School of Interior Design Library's IDOL (Interior Design OnLine) digital image database. 
North Carolina ECHO
( Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) is another good example of a Digitization Manual from soup to nuts, that emphasizes PLANNING!
 
 
 

PRESERVATION

Digital Curation Manual.
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides access to digital curation expertise and best practice for the creation, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and re-use over time. A key objective for this project is the creation and maintenance of a world-class Digital Curation Manual. The DCC Digital Curation Manual is a community-driven resource - from the selection of instalment topics through to authorship and peer review
Kodak: Permanence, Care, and Handling of CDs - Contents
Preservation 2000:
Papers from Preservation 2000, which was held last December, 2000 are accessible at the RLG site. Preservation 2000 was an International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials and Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation: A one day workshop on digital preservation metadata co-sponsored by the Cedars Project, OCLC and Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects:
A Review of the State of the Art- White Paper by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, 2001
Safeguarding Australia¹s web resources:
guidelines for creators and publishers These guidelines are intended primarily to assist those creators and publishers who do not already have well established digital data management procedures in place. Dependence on particular hardware and software may result in resources becoming unusable when their support technology becomes obsolete.
Digital Preservation A pre-publication draft
of the Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook is now available as a pdf file.The workbook has been produced by Neil Beagrie (Joint Information Systems Committee) and Maggie Jones (Arts and Humanities Data Service) with research funding from Re:source the Council for Museums Archives and Libraries. The workbook provides a comprehensive overview of digital preservation issues and practice... The broad issues associated with digital preservation are global in nature and examples of good practice, research activity and sources of advice and guidance in the workbook have been drawn from around the world. Although there is a UK focus in terms of the background to the study and some examples, e.g. legislation, are UK specific, it is anticipated that the workbook will be of interest to an international audience.
Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access
Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources
The second RLG-OCLC report intended to advance long-term retention of digital research materials.
SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access)
research: latest information about SEPIA working groups on 'scanning equipment and handling procedures', 'preservation aspects of digitisation', 'ethics of digitisation' and 'descriptive models for photographic materials'
List of Mailing Lists on Archives, Records Management and Related Subjects
UK's Preservation Coalition
The site includes an online version of its Digital Preservation Handbook and the very useful "Whats New in Digital Preservation," a collaboration between the Coalition and PADI, the Australian-based Preserving Access to Digital Information Gateway.
'Preservation Management of Digital Materials - A Handbook
A Handbook published by the British Library in November 2001
PRONOM
PRONOM is a database system that stores and provides information about file formats and the application software needed to open them. File format information is vital to digital preservation. Without it, a unit of data is merely an unintelligible stream of ones and zeros. The task of preserving digital objects requires a reliable, sustained repository of file format information.

RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

 
Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Office of Legal and Organization Affairs
 
Copy Photography Computator (Allan Kohl for the VRA)
Walks you through a search to determine your rights to use an image.
Bridgeman VS Corel
A good synopsis of the leading Copyright case where a museum asserts it owns copyrights on the reprints of the work it owns, even if the art has become part of public domain.
Neil's Security and Privacy Resources
List of links to papers on computer security issues. Of particular interest his links to reviews of watermarking and Steganography
Fair Use Harbor
A fun tutorial in copyright law, especially as it applies to people using images in the educational realm.
Digital Imaging
An index of resources sites primarily concerned with copyright issues, but also reflect the history of digital imaging in context.
Shared Records for Visual Resources
 
Copyright Management Center
Indiana University's collection of copyright resources.
LibLicense
A site to assist you in understanding licensing of all types of digital products, especially note the "License Vocabulary" page.
Copy right Christine L. Sundt: Copyright and Art Issues
Copyright Laws
The Illustrated History of Copyright.
A book on copyright (with pictures!)... Samuels, Edward, St Martin's Press. 2000 - sample pages online at this link on Amazon
listserv DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT:
a forum for the analysis of topics such as copyright law and policy, technologies, and federal information law and policies that impact higher education, particularly digital distance education.
National Library of Canada
a web page on terminology used in the federal government of Canada . It includes links to thesauri, classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, geographic names, subject clusters and taxonomies
Artist Rights Society
In 1986, Artists Rights Society was appointed by the French copyright societies for visual artists to represent the intellectual property interests of their members within the United States. Since then, ARS has signed reciprocal contracts with more than twenty additional artists rights organizations worldwide.
The Rights and Reproduction Information Network (RARIN)
is a taskforce of the Registrars Committee - a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums. Their site contains many useful and itersting articles about copyright and licensing from the museum perspective.
Stanfords- Copyright and Fairuse Links
Fair Use and Multimedia Web Sites & Internet Resources
the information hiding homepage digital watermarking & steganography
Until recently, information hiding techniques received very much less attention from the research community and from industry than cryptography, but this has changed rapidly. The main driving force is concern over protecting copyright; as audio, video and other works become available in digital form. There has been significant recent research into Œwatermarking¹ (hidden copyright messages) and Œfingerprinting¹ (hidden serial numbers or a set of characteristics that tend to distinguish an object from other similar objects); the idea is that the latter can be used to detect copyright violators and the former to prosecute them.
Web Reference - watermarks
Digital watermarking software applications are making their way into the Internet arena. These programs/plug-ins embed information about the author into video, audio or graphics files. This information, when decoded with the appropriate software, can reveal things such as the author's address, terms of use, copyright date, etc. Watermarks are unremovable and unalterable. The information does not degrade with file duplication and does not perceptively disrupt the original data file.
University of Maryland University College¹s Center of Intellectual Property
Center of Intellectual Property has resources such as a growing collection of intellectual property policies, and information about digital rights management, the public domain, the Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory (VAIL) , the Digital-Copyright Listserv.and now an online, interactive tutorial on copyright basics called the ©Primer.
Digital Licensing: A Practical Guide for Librarians
new book by Lesley Ellen Harris (published by the American Library Association)
Friends of Active Copyright Education
FACE is a new intitiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.. The principal goal is to provide a broad range of resources to foster and support copyright awareness
IP @ the National Academie
The National Acsdemies advise the US government and nation on Science Engineering and Medicine This site serves as a guide to the Academies' extensive work on Intellectual Property and a forum to discuss ongoing work.

ASSOCIATIONS

Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM)
Association for Information and Image Management International
AMN NORTH AMERICA
Archives & Museum Informatics
Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) – Creating and Managing Digital Content
MCN - Museum Computer Network
Visual Resources Association
National Information Standards Home Page
Research Libraries Group
PADI
Preserving Access to Digital Information - avoid obsolescence
NINCH
An association which is very involved with Copyright issues.
Special Library Association Bay Region web site
Argus Center for Information Architecture
The Argus Center for Information Architecture provides leadership in defining and advancing the evolving discipline of information architecture. It serves as a focal point for learning about the theory and practice of information architecture.
Digital Preservation
An online community designed to foster communication and collaboration among group members, and provide tools and resources for all members.
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork).
an EU funded collaboration between HATII at the University of Glasgow, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Switzerland), Rijksarchiefdienst (Netherlands), and the University of Urbino (Italy)) to make viable and visible information, best practice, and skills development in the area of digital preservation of cultural heritage and scientific objects.
Open Archives Initiative
the OAI (The Open Archives Initiative) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
Rights and Reproductions Information Network (RARIN)
a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums
Organizations that study, nurture and secure the health of the public domain
Public Knowledge
Creative Commons
Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University School of Law
The Norman Lear Center at University of Southern California
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
ibiblio at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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