Technical Handbooks and Guides

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Contents 1 Authorities 2 Compilations 3 Dictionaries 4 Digital Archival Search Tools 5 Directories 6 Encyclopedias 7 Guidelines 7.1 Audiovisual 7.2 Digital Preservation 7.3 Exhibits 8 Glossaries 9 Guides 9.1 Archives and Manuscripts 9.2 Audiovisual 9.3 Databases 9.4 General 9.5 Patents 10 Handbooks 11 Patent and Statistical Databases 11.1 Patents 11.2 Statistics 11.3 Reference 12 Technical Surveys and Reports 12.1 Archives 12.2 Audiovisual 12.3 Copyright 12.4 General 13 Thesauri 13.1 Archives 13.2 Art and Architecture 13.3 Classical Languages 13.4 Cultures, Anthropology and Sociology 13.5 General 13.6 Law and Politics 13.7 Museology 13.8 Music 13.9 Science and Mathematics 14 Union Catalogs 15 AddThis Bookmark

Authorities

• Library of Congress Name Authority Files (LCNAF) Database

Compilations

• Audiovisual archives: a practical reader - "Compilation of texts and documents on av archiving" by UNESCO

Dictionaries

• Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 4 (1908)
• Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi - Dictionary of Medieval Latin Musical Terminology to the End of the 15th Century
• A New General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 11 (London, 1848)

Digital Archival Search Tools

• Archivopedia's EAD Central - Scope: International
• Online Archiving & Searching Internet Sources (OASIS) - Scope: Korea

Directories

• Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories

Encyclopedias

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 13 (1912)

Guidelines

Audiovisual

• Assessment Guidelines - National Library of Australia / ANICA
• Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles - UNESCO
• Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions - IFLA
• Metadata Digitization Guidelines for Still Images - Library of Congress (2008)
• Metadata Digitization Guidelines for Audio-Visual Materials - Library of Congress (2008)
• Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation

Digital Preservation

• Electronic Storage Media - Stanford
• Preserving Access to Digital Information - National Library of Australia

Exhibits

• Exhibition Guidelines - lending special collections materials for exhibit purposes

Glossaries

• A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology - Society of American Archivists (2005)

Guides

Archives and Manuscripts

• Gale Directory of Online, Portable, and Internet Databases
• Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States (not yet available online)

Audiovisual

• The Archival Advisor: IPI's Guide for the Family Photo Collector, the Genealogist, and the Scrapbook Maker from the Image Permanance Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology
• Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell - Library of Congress
• IPI Media Storage Quick Reference - Image Permanence Institute
• Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide - Texas Commission on the Arts

Databases

• Gale Directory of Databases Detroit: Gale, 2003. (not yet available online)

General

• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials - NINCH / NYU

Patents

• Guide to U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries

Handbooks

Handbook of the Academy of Certified Archivists

Patent and Statistical Databases

Patents

• European Patent Database
• U.S. Patent Database

Statistics

• CIA World Factbook
• UN DATA
• World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

Reference

• RUSA Guidelines - reference services

Technical Surveys and Reports

Archives

• InterPARES 2 Luciana Duranti and Randy Preston eds. International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2: Interactive, Dynamic and Experiential Records. Rome: ANAI, 2008.

Audiovisual

• Audio Visual Carriers - Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe (TAPE)
• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes - Library of Congress
• Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces - Table of Contents only online
• Recovery of Partially Degraded Colors in Old Films - EUSIPICO / ICT
• Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries - CLIR
• Survey of Endangered Audiovisual Carriers - UNESCO

Copyright

• RLG Partner Copyright Investigation Summary Report
• Section 108 Study Group Report - U.S. Copyright Office/Library of Congress, March 2008

General

• Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past (RAND)
• The Relative Stabilities of Optical Disc Formats

Thesauri

Archives

• English Heritage National Monuments Record Thesauri
• UK Archival Thesaurus (UKAT)

Art and Architecture

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Classical Languages

• OASIS Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

Cultures, Anthropology and Sociology

• American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus

General

• UNESCO Thesaurus

Law and Politics

• USDOJ National Criminal Justice Referece Service (NCJRS) Thesaurus

Museology

• The British Museum materials thesaurus

Music

• Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature - Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Science and Mathematics

• International Astronomical Union Astronomy Thesaurus
• Cambridge Maths Thesaurus
• The chemical thesaurus reaction chemistry database
• NASA Thesaurus
• NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus
• SLAC Speak

Union Catalogs

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• Korean Online Union Catalogs (KERIS) - Union catalog of 300 university libraries in Korea.

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