Abruzzese Cultural Institutions : Digitization Readiness & Project Viability

Planning paper addressing a potential way forward, digitising archival, library and museum materials for the benefit of the people of Abruzzo, Italy, following the L'Aquilla earthquake of 2009. The paper was commissioned by the United States Department of State and its Embassy in Rome, in coordination with the Italian Direzione Generale per gli Archivi and the various archives, libraries and museums of L'Aquilla

From the Air: the photographic record of Florida’s lands

Funded by Florida LSTA grants in 2002-03 this project digitized 88,000 black and white aerial photographs and 2,500 photomosaic indexes created for Florida by the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 1938 and 1971. These images are presented on the Web using an ESRI ARCIMS(Internet Map Server.) Technical specifications of digital capture, specialized programming, and project value are reviewed. (Will be published in OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives, v. 21, no. 2 , Summer 2005