Message-Id: <199804232112.OAA55680@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:07:15 PDT From: Robin Dale <mailto:BL.RLD@RLG.ORG> Subject: April 15, 1998 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Volume 2, Issue 2 of RLG DigiNews, the web-based, quarterly newsletter is now available at:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
This April issue contains a feature article by Sandra Payette, Digital Library Research Group, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. Her article, "Persistent Identifiers on the Digital Terrain," details the problem of identifying and locating digital resources on the Web both permanently and persistently. Included in the article are discussions of Uniform Resource Names (URNs); Persistent URLs (PURLs); The CNRI Handle System; and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Initiative.
The issue also contains a technical feature article, "The Promise of the FlashPix Image File Format" by Kevin Donovan, New Media Applications, Intermuse. Donovan discusses the evolution of FlashPix as an image file format and details its promise for providing Web access to cultural heritage resources. The article contains an excellent description of the benefits inherent in FlashPix technology, while alerting readers to the obstacles that need to be overcome before FlashPix can be adopted and supported as an image standard.
Rounding out this issue is a current calendar of events, project announcements, a highlighted web site, and a FAQ about viewing TIFF images over the Web.
Readers can continue to search issues of RLG DigiNews by keyword or browse the hyperlinked tables of content of available issues.
For more information about RLG or PRESERV, please contact either Robin Dale (mailto:bl.rld@rlg.org) or Nancy Elkington (bl.nee@rlg.org).
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