The first 100,000 cards have been scanned and metadata is being created for retrieval via address and spatial coordinates. Additionally, as a companion to the cards, the WPA 1930's Land Use Survey, prepared for the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to map 460 square miles within the City's boundaries, are also being digitized and described. Approximately 350 images have been completed. Coverage includes local, national, and international news items, autobiographies, fiction, poetry, reviews of cultural events, letters to the editor and advertisements. The creation of metadata records is underway.
Access is planned by date and by keywords from the headlines.
MrSID images of the newspaper pages will provide zoom and pan capabilities later in 2001. Metadata Ingest System Facilitates catalogers to login, create, modify and delete qualified Dublin Core metadata for digital objects in IDA and aid in quality assurance. A distributed data and image base system of ancient inscriptions and material culture archives from the Near Eastern and the Mediterranean World. The image data include the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Canaanite texts from the biblical period and earlier, Mesopotamian documents and medieval Jewish manuscripts as well as the oldest biblical text currently extant and the oldest complete Hebrew bible in the world. These materials are scattered worldwide and consequently cannot be viewed together for detailed comparison and study.