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These links below represent a selective list of current "best-practices" documentation available on the web.

Digitization and Scanning Guides

Volunteer Voices Processing Manual
http://www.volunteervoices.org/resources/vv-processing-manual.pdf

Colorado Digitization Program- Scanning Resources
http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/scanning/index.html

Recommendations for Digitizing RLG Cultural Materials
http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/prospective.html

Creating and Managing Digital Content
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html

Guide to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
http://www.rlg.org/visguides/

Internet Public Library Pathfinders: Digitization
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48463

LOC AV Prototype Project: List of Documents
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/avlcdocs.html#md

Building Digital Collections:
Technical Information and Background Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials
http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm

Copyright

The Future of Fair Use : Bibliography
http://www.asis.org/Chapters/neasis/pc/programs/20011211_bibliography_print.html

Digital Libraries and the Application of Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act
http://www.dml.indiana.edu/html/crews-sec108/section108overview.html

Getting Permission
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/permissn.htm

Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/

University of Florida: SEEKING DIGITIZATION PERMISSIONS
http://palmm.fcla.edu/strucmeta/permit.html

Center For Intellectual Property: UMUC
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

U.S. Copyright Law Chapter One
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html

Articles and Publications

CLIR Reports - Strategies and Tools For The Digital Library
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/strategies.html

Ariadne - electronic journal focusing on digital library research and development (Britain)
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

D-lib - electronic journal focusing on digital library research and development (US)
http://www.dlib.org/

Documents in Information Science - Searchable database of Information Science articles (about 50% available to download for free)
http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.dk/index.html

IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin - a new electronic newsletter
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/

Journal of Digital Information - Peer reviewed electronic journal focusing on digital information management.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

RLG DigiNews - electronic newsletter
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

D-Lib Forum: monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries
http://www.dlib.org/

Digital Conversion of Research Library Materials: A Case for Full Informational Capture
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october96/cornell/10chapman.html

Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html

Digital Division is Cultural Exclusion. But Is Digital Inclusion Cultural Inclusion?
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/worcman/03worcman.html

Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/gill/01gill.html

Report of the Digital Preservation Policy Working Group on Establishing a Central Depository for Preserving Digital Image Collections, Part 1: Responsibilities of Transferee
http://www.library.cornell.edu/imls/image%20deposit%20guidelines.pdf

Strategies for Building Digitized Collections
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html

A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub118abst.html

Authenticity in a Digital Environment
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub92abst.html

Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
http://heds.herts.ac.uk/mellon/charging_models.html

Recent Books

Information is alive : [art and theory on archiving and retrieving data] / [design, Joke Brouwer ; translations, Leo Reijnen, Stephen Kovats and Klara Glowczewska]. Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2003.

Who wants yesterday´s papers? : essays on the research value of printed materials in the digital age / edited by Yvonne Carignan ... [et al.].
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018106.html

Digital imaging : a practical approach / Jill Marie Koelling. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press, 2004.

Digitizing collections : strategic issues for the information manager / Lorna M. Hughes. London : Facet, 2004.

A splendor of letters : the permanence of books in an impermanent world / Nicholas A. Basbanes. New York : HarperCollins, 2003.

Digital preservation and metadata : history, theory, practice / Susan S. Lazinger. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 2001.

Enduring paradigm, new opportunities : the value of the archival perspective in the digital environment / Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland.
Washington, DC : Council on Library and Information Resources 2000.

Project Planning

NISO: A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html

RLG Tools For Digital Imaging
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RLGtools.html

Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
http://www.rlg.org/visguides/

NINCH Guide to Good Practice
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections
http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html

Museum and cultural heritage information standards and organisations
http://www.willpowerinfo.myby.co.uk/cidoc/stand2.htm

Handbook for Digital Projects
http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm

Organizatons and Collections

Colorado Digitization Program
http://www.cdpheritage.org/

California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/news/

Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/cidle.html

Terms, Concepts, Glossaries, Tutorials

Digital Film Photographer Resource Center Glossary
http://www.digitalexposure.ca/sub1.html

Northern Micrographics Resources and Information: Glossary of Imaging Terms
http://www.normicro.com/glossary.htm

Lexical and Classification Resources
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/lex/

Digitization Glossary: Colorado Digitization Program
http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/introduction/rsrc_glossary.html

Digital Imaging Tutorial
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html

Preservation and Conservation

Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub121abst.html

Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets
http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources
/guidelines/videofacts/about.html

Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

National Institute of Standards and Technology: Data Preservation Program
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/isis/datastorage.html

Electronic Storage Media
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/electronic-records/electronic-storage-media/

Quick Reference Guide for Care and Handling
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/disccare.html

Audio Preservation and Restoration
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/preservation.html

Audio Preservation
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/audio/

Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/index.html

Video Format Identification Guide
http://paulmessier.com/videoid/

Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/

Preservation Research of the National Film Preservation Board
http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/filmpres.html

18th Annual Preservation Conference, Preservation Reformatting: Digital Technology vs. Analog Technology
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/preservation_conference2003.html

Metadata & Cataloging

Chapter 24 of the XML Bible, Second Edition : Schemas
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch24.html

Dublin Core Glossary
http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/glossary.shtml

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

NISO: Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39_87_trial_use.pdf

Using Dublin Core
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/

Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html

Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/organization/index.html

OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/

EAD / Encoded Archival Description
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html