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COM Report available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Berger)
Mon Sep 29 21:11:47 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:57:50 -0500
From: Barbara Berger <beb1@cornell.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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The full report of Cornell's Digital to Microfilm Conversion Project is
now available on the Web page of the Department of Preservation and
Conservation, Cornell University Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/com/comfin.html
This report presents findings on quality, cost, and process in a two year
study to test and evaluate the use of high resolution bitonal imaging to
produce computer output microfilm (COM) that can meet national preservation
standards for quality and permanence. The project, funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, is complementary in scope and approach to
Yale University's Project Open Book, also funded by NEH, to digitally
convert previously filmed research library materials. The Cornell report
offers a comparative assessment to this project.
