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Site from the American Theological Library Association that breaks down the classification schemes for both the Library of Congress and Dewey.

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Rich resource of digital collections on many american history topics.

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The work will focus on guidelines intended for works categorized as historical, cultural and/or archival. In addition to digital imaging and encoding, guidelines will be developed for the metadata that is embedded in digital image files, with a view to increasing the extent to which the files can be “self-describing.”

Participants include IMLS, Library of Congress, NLM, NAL, NIST, GPO, NARA.

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April 1996 D-Lib article on how the Library of Congress is proceeding to digitize its historical items. Great source of planning and determining the challenges of digitization.

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Includes links to general information, current 2002 version, listserv information and tool and helper files.

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News interview for Voice of America about the Library of Congress' Digital Projects. From 2008. Addresses Middle East and African audience.

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Library of Congress subject headings online. Broader, narrower, and related terms. Also a visualization feature and helpful search feature. Can download RDF/XML and contains URI's for semantic Web services. Has 342,684 headings as of May 1, 2009.

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Washington Post article on the World Digital Library. Good illustration of the value of Digital Collections for the World's cultural heritage.

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Service that creates URI's for authority concepts and controlled vocabularies like the Library of Congress Subject Headings. This helps to support the ability to use RDF linkages.

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List of digital collections from all 50 states and multi-state collections maintained by the Library of Congress.

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Converts Dewey numbers and topics to Library of Congress classification. Only converts to the high level classification not for detail work.

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link to library catalogs around the world.

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