LC, Xerox Team up for Digital Archiving Collaboration
Jennifer Pinkowski -- Library Journal, 11/5/2007
In a collaboration that will test new ways to manage large image collections, Xerox will convert as many as a million digital images, photographs, and maps from the Library of Congress (LC) into a newer digital format in hopes of creating "leaner, faster" digital collections in the future. According to a statement from Xerox, the company will build and test a digital repository, creating a set of guidelines for converting TIFF files to JPEG 2000, a newer digital format. The guidelines will be turned over to the LC and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which is developing digitization standards with other federal agencies. Xerox did not estimate when the project would be completed.This the second such project for LC and Xerox. The latter also developed a similar JPEG 2000 "profile" for the National Digital Newspaper Project, a ongoing venture between the LOC and the National Endowment for the Humanities that began in 2004. The still-growing digital collection debuted online this year, in beta form, as Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
