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National Digital Library Program

Index National Digital Library Program

The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (NDLP) is assembling a digital library of reproductions of primary source materials to support the study of the history and culture of the United States. [1]

43 relations: American Memory, Bibliographic database, CD-ROM, Data format management, Digital audio, Digital camera, Digital curation, Digital library, Digital preservation, Digital Preservation Coalition, Digital video, E-text, Global Legal Information Network, Grayscale, Image scanner, Index (publishing), Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Internet, Internet Archive, Joint Photographic Experts Group, Lesson plan, Library catalog, Library of Congress, List of digital library projects, Manuscript, Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, MrSID, National Archives and Records Administration, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, National Geospatial Digital Archive, National Science Foundation, Open Archival Information System, Open Archives Initiative, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Pandora Archive, Primary source, QuickTime, RealAudio, Scholarly method, Standard Generalized Markup Language, Teacher, TIFF, W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

American Memory

American Memory is an Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content.

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Bibliographic database

A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc.

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CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.

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Data format management

Data format management (DFM) is the application of a systematic approach to the selection and use of the data formats used to encode information for storage on a computer.

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Digital audio

Digital audio is audio, or simply sound, signal that has been recorded as or converted into digital form, where the sound wave of the audio signal is encoded as numerical samples in continuous sequence, typically at CD audio quality which is 16 bit sample depth over 44.1 thousand samples per second.

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Digital camera

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital curation

Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.

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Digital library

A digital library, digital repository, or digital collection, is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, or other digital media formats.

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Digital preservation

In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable.

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Digital Preservation Coalition

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit limited company which seeks to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK and internationally to secure the global digital memory and knowledge base.

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Digital video

Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.

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E-text

IN some communities, "e-text" is used much more narrowly, to refer to electronic documents that are, so plain text file, but that it has no information beyond "the text itself"—no repboldparagraph, page, chapter, or footnote boundaries, etc.

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Global Legal Information Network

The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a cooperative, not-for-profit federation of government agencies or their designees that contribute national legal information to the GLIN database.

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Grayscale

In photography, computing, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light, that is, it carries only intensity information.

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Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner, although the term is ambiguous out of context (barcode scanner, CT scanner etc.)—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

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Index (publishing)

An index (plural: usually indexes, more rarely indices; see below) is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document or collection of documents.

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, was established in 1962.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Joint Photographic Experts Group

The Joint Photographic Experts Group is the joint committee founded by Jim Judkins between ISO/IEC JTC 1 and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) that created the JPEG, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR standards.

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Lesson plan

A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction or "learning trajectory" for a lesson.

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Library catalog

A library catalog or library catalogue is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of digital library projects

This is a list of digital library projects.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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MrSID

MrSID (pronounced Mister Sid) is an acronym that stands for multiresolution seamless image database.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives.

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National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the United States is an archival program led by the Library of Congress to archive and provide access to digital resources.

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National Geospatial Digital Archive

The National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) is an archive of cartographic information funded by the Library of Congress through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in collaboration with the University of California Santa Barbara, and Stanford University.

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National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Open Archival Information System

An Open Archival Information System (or OAIS) is an archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community.

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Open Archives Initiative

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an organization to develop and apply technical interoperability standards for archives to share catalog information (metadata).

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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting (or collecting) metadata descriptions of records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives.

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Pandora Archive

PANDORA is the national web archive for the preservation of Australia's online publications.

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Primary source

In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source or evidence) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity.

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RealAudio

RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995.

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Scholarly method

The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public.

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Standard Generalized Markup Language

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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TIFF

Tagged Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

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W. K. Kellogg Foundation

The W. K. Kellogg Foundation was founded in June 1930 as the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Digital_Library_Program

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