Preservation and Access Research and Development Projects

University of California, Berkeley (FY 1998) received support for a collaborative effort by five members of the Digital Library Federation to test standards and practices for the creation and retrieval of historical resources on the Internet.

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (FY 1998) investigated of the effects of fluctuating environments on library and archive materials in order to provide information for decision making and new guidelines and standards for preserving resources in the humanities.

Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL (FY 2002) developed a North American standard for archival description that would facilitate the communication of archival information in electronic form. Experts from the United States and Canada will create a manual of description.

TEI Consortium, Charlottesville, VA (FY 2002) converted the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, which will allow easier use and distribution of structured humanities documents via the Web.

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (FY 2005) developed and tested of best practices for preserving analog sound recordings by converting them into digital form.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (FY 2005) constructed and tested a non-invasive state-of-the-art optical scanning system that will recover recorded sound from a variety of mechanical formats, including 78 rpm, shellac, acetate, wax, and recording discs.