Examples of Digital Library Projects
- Title: Examples of Digital Library Projects
- Identifier: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/local/pacific/page7.html
- Description: This article presents differents digital libraries, in all around the world. Are evoked the purpose of these digital libraries, the volume of collectionsbut also the system of digitalization.
- Subject: digital libraries; World; purpose; volume of collections; system of digitalization.
- Format: html
- Type: text
- Language: english
Abstract of the article:
"Bibliotheque National de France's GALLICA. "The French National Library (BnF) has been involved in a massive digitization program since 1992, with the goal of converting 100,000 titles and 300,000 pictures to digital image form. Currently over 87,000 texts and 100,000 pictorial items have been digitized, representing 26 million pages and 3 terabytes of information. Over one million pages on 19th century French culture are now available at the GALLICA Web site. The books and serials were scanned as 300-400 dpi, 1-bit images; the pictorial materials at 1,000 x 1,500, or 2,000 x 3,000 pixels, and compressed with JPEG at 10:1 compression. Forty percent of the digitization was directly from the documents themselves; the remainder from microfilm or photographs. Material is accessible via the Web site as bitmap images or in some cases in PDF format." (from RLG DigNews 2/15/98) "