Florida International University Libraries Digital Library Working Group Virtual Field Trip I: May 26, 1998

CRACKS IN THE WEB

1. Loooooooong diary (from documenting the American South, UNC

2. Overly 'chunked up' report, from Everglades Digital Library, FIU Libraries

3. Valid HTML with Style, Everglades Natural History Journal, Everglades Digital Library

DIGITAL IMAGES

1. What is a Bitmap?

2. Image Resolution - Ruler Tutorial

3. Bitonal page image, Making of America, Cornell University

   • Page image with text and line art
   • Automatic navigation using scripts
   • URL: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2/HARP.html

4. Grayscale image, North Dakota Plains, American Memory Project, Library of Congress

   • Black and white halftone
   • Manually "mounted" on HTML page; manual navigation
   • URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngp_farm.html

5. Tonal page image, Center for Electronic Text Initiatives (CETI), University of Pennsylvania

   • Page image with handwritten text and color artwork
   • Manual navigation
   • URL: http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/persian-mss/crafts1820/036.html

6. Translation from Browse to Print quality (PDF) on the fly Making of America, University of Michigan

   • Script-based automatic translation from TIF-to-GIF or TIF-to-PDF versions
   • Note difference in GIF vs. PDF print quality
   • URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACG4267-1521VANI-3

7. Bitonal page images wrapped in PDF, Elsevier Journals Online, FCLA Digital Library
   • Bitonal TIFF page images wrapped in PDF
   • No searchable text - page images only
   • How about the download time?
   • Excellent print quality- as good as the original
   • URL: http://webluis.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlui/webluis/TIDLWQL/DBIDQL/&WLCMDE

DIGITAL TEXTS

1. Plain text, Everglades Digital Library, Florida International University

   • Plain Text Abstract
   • No bells and whistles
   • Is searchable by Web search tools
   • URL: http://everglades.fiu.edu/hid/doren9610.txt

2. Searchable PDF version of same

   • Requires PDF Reader
   • Longer download time to get entire PDF file
   • May not be searchable by Web search tools
   • URL: http://everglades.fiu.edu/hid/doren9610.pdf

3. SGML (TEI) to HTML, from Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

   • On-the-fly translation to HTML using a Perl script
   • Illustrations linked outside of text via TOC
   • URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/diaries.html

4. SGML (E-Bind) formatted page images, Patrick Breen Diary, Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite

   • On-the-fly conversion from SGML (E-Bind DTD) to HTML
   • Tonal page images at thumbnail, browse, and higher-quality resolutions
   • Page images with text behind
   • SGML-based automated navigation bar
   • URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html/2/breen?cap

ELECTRONIC BINDING & NAVIGATION

1. Manual navigation between text and images, from Documenting the American South, University of North Carlina, Chapel Hill

   • On-the-fly translation to HTML using a Perl script
   • Mostly manual navigation (as seen with illustrations page)
   • URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/diaries.html
   • URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/andrews/illustr.html

2. Automatic navigation between text and images, Evolution of the Conservation Movement, American Memory Project, Library of Congress
   • SGML (TEI) to HTML
   • Text with page images behind
   • Script-based automated navigation bar
   • URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/consrvbib:@FIELD(NUMBER(vg02))

3. Hybrid navigation between proprietary 'Leaf-and'tree' system and PDF, FCLA Digital Library
   • Leaf-and-tree navigation (Proprietary) facilitates automatic links to parent-child-sibling-index/toc
   • Navigation to article level via proprietary FCLA DL system
   • Navigation within article via PDF
   • URL: http://webluis.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlui/webluis/TIDLWQL/DBIDQL/&WLCMDE

4. Yellowstone Maps American Memory Project, Library of Congress

   • Oversize (full color) images with proprietary navigation
   • Zooming in and out enables variable views
   • URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/yehtml/yehome.html