2 messages.--------------------------Johnnie --------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:13:41 -0400 (EDT) From: David Y Allen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re.: Microform to digital State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331 David Y Allen Library-Reference 516 632-7110 01-Aug-1996 09:03am EDT FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re.: Microform to digital Art Lassagne asks about converting microfilm to digital text. I know that a good deal of work has been done in this area both at Yale and the Library of Congress. I am not familiar with the literature on this subject, but understand that there are a lot of problems involved in coverting microfilm to digital--especially when the text includes images, such as maps. References to the literature on this issue can be found in two important reports published earlier this year. The first is James M. Reilly and Franzika Frey, "Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images Produced from Photographic, Microphotographic, and Various Paper Formats" (available from Technical Documentation for the National Digital Library Project on the LC Web site at http://www.loc.gov). The other is "Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information Commission by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group" (available from Commission on Preservation and Access at http://lyra.org./ArchTF) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 21:29:06 -0400 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Microfilm to digital Best thing to do is have a chat with the experts. Call up Bruce Walters of NMT Corporation at 608 781 0850. He, above anyone, should be able to fix you right up.