Revised entry in Clearinghouse

Stuart Glogoff (mailto:sglogoff@BIRD.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU)
Fri, 30 May 1997 11:13:56 -0900 

Message-Id: <199705301814.LAA301174@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date:         Fri, 30 May 1997 11:13:56 -0900
From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@BIRD.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject:      Revised entry in Clearinghouse
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU


Judi Zidar from the U. S. National Agriculture Library has submitted a
revision to an entry from 1994 for NAL's National Agricultural Text
Digitizing Program.  It's been added to the Clearinghouse and the earlier
entry deleted.  SG


LISTING INFORMATION
-Status: Update
-Date:   1997 06 01


DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION:
-Name:  National Agricultural Text DigitizingProgram
-Discipline:  Agriculture -Date:  1992-present
-Material:  Printed agricultural documents captured as page images,
accompanied by bibliographic records or full text.  To date, publications
include AGRONOMY JOURNAL, Vols. 1-28; NICOLLS BIRDS OF EGYPT, 1930; and the
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vols. 74-77.  In addition NAL
collections on AQACULTURE and FOOD IRRADIATION have been digitized from
print, and part of a Tuskegee University collection on GEORGE WASHINGTON
CARVER has been digitized from microfilm.
-No. Images:  51,500
-Collection Type: Library
-Access:      stand-alone CD-ROMs
-Institution: National Agricultural Library, ARS, USDA, U.S.
-Purpose:  Preserve deteriorating collections and make them more accessible.
Publications have been distributed on CD-ROM, and some will be made available
through NAL's web site in late winter 1997.


CONTACT(S):: -Project:  Judith A. Zidar, Leader, Imaging and Conversion,
USDA, NAL, ISD, Rm. 013, 10301 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-2351,
Phone: (301) 504-6813; Fax: (301) 504-7473; [mailto:jzidar@nal.usda.gov]
-Technical:
-Copyright(s) and Permissions Information: Some materials are copyrighted by
the original publishers, some are public domain.


TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
-Creation Method: Optical scanning and OCR.
-File Format: Group 4 TIFF or JPEG images; ASCII text.
-File Size:
-Software:    Retrieval - Windows Personal Librarian 3.0, from PLS, Rockville, MD.
-Media:       CD-ROM; Web access under development.
-Total Storage: 9 CD-ROMs to date.
-Simultaneous Users:
-Compression: CCITT Group IV for binary images; JPEG for color.
-Other:


PUBLICATION INFORMATION/REFERENCES:
"National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project: Toward the Electronic
Library." November 1992 (available from NAL).


"Optical scanning and text recognition", Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science, 1995, Vol. 56 (Supplement 19), p. 283-306.
Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.


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