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methods include the use of standard "targets" and a description of the tools and devices
needed to measure image quality.
Sitts, Maxine K., editor, Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for
Preservation and Access, Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center,
2000.
Selected Model Programs and Projects
Aluka
http://www.aluka.org/
"… not-for-profit initiative partnering with key libraries, museums, and archives around
the globe to build a sustainable digital library of curated collections from and about the
developing world, focusing, to begin with, on Africa"
Collaborative Digitization Program
http://www.cdpheritage.org/index.cfm
The CDP endeavors to provide meaningful content on human culture, science, and art to
everyone connected online. The site both provides access to information about American
culture and contains information about providing online access to historic collections.
The CDP is based on a model of distributed images and centralized metadata. Guidelines
include:
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Project Management (including questions to ask before starting and funding
sources) http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/index.cfm
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CDP Collection policy, May 2006
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/CDPCollectionPolicyMay2006.pdf
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CDP Digital Image Storage Policy, July 2001
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/policy_imagestorage_2001.pdf
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Western States Digital Standards Group, Western States Digital Imaging Best
Practices, Version 1.0, January 2003.
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/documents/WSDIBP_v1.pdf. (For
the quick reference see
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/quickRef.cfm
.)
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CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices, Version 2.1.1, September 2006.
http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/CDPDCMBP.pdf
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CDP Digital Audio Best Practices, Version 2.0, November 2005.
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/audio/documents/CDPDABP_1-2.pdf
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DC Builder: a tool that allows institutions to directly input and edit Dublin Core
records using a web-based interface. Administrators can also crosswalk and batch
load non-Dublin Core records, such as MARC records, museum collection
management databases, and other local database formats.
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/dcBuilder.cfm
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Rocky Mountain Online Archive, EAD Outsourcing Guide, Version 1.0, May
2005. http://www.cdpheritage.org/project/rmoa/outsourcingGuide.cfm
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A Sound Model: Collaborative Infrastructure for Digital Audio. This project will
create a shared infrastructure that enables museums, libraries and archives to