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The Project Gutenberg Etext of LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS

WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS

PROCEEDINGS

Edited by James Daly

9-10 June 1992

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Supported by a Grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Welcome

Prosser Gifford and Carl Fleischhauer

Session I. Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What Will They Do?

James Daly (Moderator)

Avra Michelson, Overview

Susan H. Veccia, User Evaluation

Joanne Freeman, Beyond the Scholar

Discussion

Session II. Show and Tell

Jacqueline Hess (Moderator)

Elli Mylonas, Perseus Project

Discussion

Eric M. Calaluca, Patrologia Latina Database

Carl Fleischhauer and Ricky Erway, American Memory

Discussion

Dorothy Twohig, The Papers of George Washington

Discussion

Maria L. Lebron, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials

Discussion

Lynne K. Personius, Cornell mathematics books

Discussion

Session III. Distribution, Networks, and Networking:

Options for Dissemination

Robert G. Zich (Moderator)

Clifford A. Lynch

Discussion

Howard Besser

Discussion

Ronald L. Larsen

Edwin B. Brownrigg

Discussion

Session IV. Image Capture, Text Capture, Overview of Text and

Image Storage Formats

William L. Hooton (Moderator)

A) Principal Methods for Image Capture of Text:

direct scanning, use of microform

Anne R. Kenney

Pamela Q.J. Andre

Judith A. Zidar

Donald J. Waters

Discussion

B) Special Problems: bound volumes, conservation,

reproducing printed halftones

George Thoma

Carl Fleischhauer

Discussion

C) Image Standards and Implications for Preservation

Jean Baronas