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Index to NDLP Documentation

This collection of "pages" is primarily for internal use within the National Digital Library Program. Please do not create links to these pages from outside the Library or from pages on the Library's public web-site. Links to the Library of Congress Staff Home Page will not function from outside the Library. Public documentation about the National Digital Library Program and American Memory is also accessible.

Browse through the alphabetical list of sections/pages in the documentation. To search for a particular word in the titles of pages, use the Find command provided by your WWW browser.

The NDLP Glossary is another "way in" to the NDLP Documentation.

• Adding an NDLP collection to the digital library
  1. Outline of Process
  2. Select a collection for digital conversion
  3. Plan the approach to digitization and framework for primary access
  4. Produce the digital collection and access aids -- in preparation
  5. Store the digital collection in the digital archive -- in preparation
  6. Enable access through chosen framework -- in preparation
  7. Test and refine access framework -- in preparation
  8. Release to public -- in preparation
• Collections -- various tables and lists
  1. Collections: Indexing & Access
  2. Display Rules for InQuery Applications using query cgi-script
  3. Routines used in query for item display in American Memory collections
  4. Locator tables used for retrieving and displaying items. [Details badly in need of updating, but description of tables is still reasonably helpful.]
• Digital Archive Structure
  1. Functional requirements for a digital archive
  2. Analogy to the print collection
  3. NDL implementation as of January 1996
  4. Planned long-term approach
  5. The functional components will be modular
  6. A prototype under development
• Feature codes used in filenames to distinguish image versions and special categories of pages
• Handle Server (in development with CNRI)
  1. Handle Server: Overview
  2. More on Handles and Naming Authorities
  3. A Global System of Handle Servers
• Identifiers for digital resources
• Naming conventions for NDLP collections -- in preparation
• MARC field 856 for NDLP: current use -- in preparation
• Imaging
• Getting a Handle on Quality of Digital Images, slides from a presentation given by Franziska Frey on January 28, 1998.
• Index to NDLP Documentation -- this page
• Indexing American Memory materials to support search and retrieval
  • How MARC records are indexed for American Memory and Digital OneBox
  • Stopword list for indexing American Memory
• Informal model for access to the NDLP historical collections
• Items (objects) in a digital archive: formats, aggregation, and granularity -- in preparation
  • Digital formats in current use by NDLP
• Item display from MARC bibliographic record
• Legal Considerations and the National Digital Library Program: An Introduction
• Page-turning: presentation of documents digitized as sequences of bit-mapped images. How the page-turning script works
• Repository-related documentation
  • Prototype Repository (developed by CNRI)
  • Structural Metadata Dictionary for LC Digitized Materials
• Steps in the Digitization Process (Carl Fleischhauer, January 1996)
• Storage
  • Hierarchical Storage Management
• Technological aspects of the LC/Ameritech National Digital Library competition
• Text Quality review at NDLP

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Index to NDLP Documentation

National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress
Comments: caar@loc.gov (12/31/98)