- Still Image Working Group
- Participating Organizations
- Advisory Board
- Sub-Groups
- Documents and Guidelines
- Resources and Industry Standards
- Provide Comments
Related Resources
The following organizations are members of the Still Images Working Group:
Library of Congress
Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 134 million physical items—books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, and sound recordings. A similarly broad spectrum of digitized materials is available through the Library's Web site (www.loc.gov). The Library also leads a national effort focussing on preservation of and long-term access to digital content (www.digitalpreservation.gov).
WEB: www.loc.gov
CONTACT: Michael Stelmach | mste@loc.gov
The National Agricultural Library
The National Agricultural Library, which holds one of the world's largest agricultural information collections, serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries. NAL’s digitization efforts focus on USDA authored peer-reviewed articles and publications as well as historical USDA publications. Full-text repositories and digital images can be accessed via the Library’s web site.
WEB: www.nal.usda.gov
CONTACT: Patricia Murphy | access@nal.usda.gov
The National Archives and Records Administration
The mission of the National Archives is to serve American democracy by safeguarding and preserving the records of our government, ensuring that people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage. It ensures continuing access to the essential documentation of the rights of American citizens and the actions of their government. The National Archives meets a wide range of information needs, among them helping people to trace their families' history, making it possible for veterans to prove their entitlement to medical and other benefits, and preserving original White House records. The National Archives carries out its mission through a nationwide network of archives, records centers, and Presidential Libraries, and on the Internet at www.archives.gov. Information on the National Archives digitization initiatives can be found at: http://www.archives.gov/digitization/. An online catalog including digitized records of the National Archives nationwide holdings can be found at: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
WEB: www.archives.gov
CONTACT: Steven Puglia | steven.puglia@nara.gov
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent art museums, collects paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts that trace the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. The Gallery's mission is to serve the United States of America by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. This mission and standard of excellence are central to every activity at the Gallery, from caring for and strengthening the collection to presenting special exhibitions and organizing public programs that span the world history of art.
Digital images of significant works representing the collection of the National Gallery of Art can be found at http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm and requested at http://www.nga.gov/resources/
divsdec.shtm.
WEB: www.nga.gov
CONTACT: Alan Newman | a-newman@nga.gov
The National Technical Information Service
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the nation's largest and most comprehensive source of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information. For more than 60 years, we have served as an innovative resource to federal agencies, businesses and universities looking for high-caliber information. NTIS is a robust resource for the information with hundreds documents added each week, we offer more than 3 million publications, all of which are available or can be converted quickly to digital format.
WEB: www.ntis.gov
CONTACT: obdinfo@ntis.gov
The National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library. The library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care. The collection contains more than nine million book and nonbook items. The Library is digitizing selected special collections and back files of important biomedical journals. It also has created a number of online exhibitions containing digitized materials from the collection.
WEB: www.nlm.nih.gov
CONTACT: Walter Cybulski |
cybulskw@mail.nlm.nih.gov
The National Transportation Library
Charged with improving the availability of transportation-related information needed by Federal, state, and local decision-makers, the National Transportation Library's (NTL) mission is to increase timely access to the information that supports transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities. The NTL was established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. As a permanent archive, the NTL Digital Repository and provides electronic resources of lasting significance. Resources are primarily textual, but include graphical resources such as maps. NTL is part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
WEB: www.ntl.bts.gov
CONTACT: librarian@bts.gov
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research complex in the world. It consists of 19 museums and galleries, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. The Institution cares for an estimated 137 million historical artifacts, works of art and natural history specimens, 1.5 million library volumes and rare books, 89,000 cubic feet of archival material, and more than 2,000 animals. Smithsonian experts conduct research in art, history, culture, science and technology. To enhance public access to this research and our vast collections, Smithsonian professionals are digitizing as much as possible as rapidly as possible and making these assets available via the Web and other technologies—all in pursuit of the Smithsonian’s mission “the increase and diffusion of knowledge."
WEB: http://www.si.edu/
CONTACT: Robert Leopold | leopold@si.edu
The U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a bureau of the US Department of Interior, is an unbiased, multidisciplinary science organization that focuses on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water. The USGS mission is dedicated to timely, relevant, and impartial study and analysis of the landscape, natural resources, and natural hazards. USGS staff is actively working to digitize the scientific and technical work the bureau has created since its inception. Specific projects include digitization of publications, maps, photography, imagery, and data that supports their current areas of research.
WEB: www.usgs.gov
CONTACT: Greg Allord | gjallord@usgs.gov
Richard Huffine | rhuffine@usgs.gov
The U.S. Government Printing Office
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating, and preserving published U.S. Government information in all its forms. GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three Branches of the Federal Government. In addition to publication sales, GPO makes government information available at no cost to the public through GPO Access (www.gpoaccess.gov), and through partnerships with more than 1,250 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program. More information on GPO's Digitization and Preservation Initiatives can be found at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/index.html.
WEB: www.gpo.gov
CONTACT: James Mauldin | jmauldin@gpo.gov
Last Updated: 10/14/2008