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March 28, 1997
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - National Digital Library Program
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) has made
available the full content of the RFP which supports all paper scanning
activities within the program. It appears as part of the LC American
Memory/ NDLP website at the Background Documents and Technical Reports
page, under Technical Operations Documentation.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
It is entitled, “Digital Images from Original Documents, Text Conversion
and SGML-Encoding” and is approximately 206 pages in length.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/prpsal/coverpag.html
The document was written by a team of staff from the LC National Digital
Library Program. It supports the conversion of a variety of LC
archival, paper-based and primarily textual collections into
raster-scanned digital images of the original pages and, in some cases,
also into machine -readable texts encoded with Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML). In this contract, manuscripts and similar
collections are to be converted to digital-image only sets, while books
and longer narrative works may require conversion to both images and
SGML-encoded text files. The resulting digital images and text
deliverables will be incorporated into computerized presentations that
are part of the Library’s National Digital Library Program and the
American Memory homepages.
The contract has been awarded and is currently in the contract startup
period. As work proceeds, a number of refinements to the specifications
and practices are being made. The National Digital Library will strive
to report these adjustments on the LC American Memory/ NDLP website.