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Delivery
System
We use two digital access systems for the materials. The
primary access point is an image database, since the bulk of the collection
consists of images of artifacts. These
images are delivered on the Web via Insight software from Luna Imaging
of Culver City, California. We have been successfully using the software
for a number of our image collections. Six
differently-sized derivative images, in JPEG and MrSid format, are available
for display and zooming. The
title page of printed text, such as a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln,
is also included in the Insight system as an image. The
image files for the body of a printed text were used to generate an uncorrected
OCR version for searching and navigation. The
text and image files from which the text was generated will be added to
the library’s successful Making of America (MOA) collection of
fully searchable OCRed text. A link will take the user from the image database to the MOA
copy of the text.
The project is also exploring the use of the ENCompass
Information System from Endeavor Information Systems as a possible single
point of entry for the collection. Cornell
is currently developing ENCompass with Endeavor, and it holds the promise
of being able to deliver both the full text and the digitized images generated
for this project. Finally,
we will test the feasibility of employing the Optical Music Recognition
system currently under development at the Johns Hopkins University as
a method of delivering computer-generated MIDI files of the scanned sheet
music.
Copyright
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Collections
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