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"http://www.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=328">        

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"http://www.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=331">        

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"http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html/2/breen?cap"> 

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"http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=varspbk&fileName=brgo71/brgo71.data">

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"http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw2&fileName=gwpage019.db&recNum=198">

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"http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ACW8433-1344APPL-115">

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<TITLESTMT>
  <TITLEPROPER>SAMPLER OF DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL ARCHIVAL OBJECTS</TITLEPROPER>
  <AUTHOR>Prepared by Caroline Arms</AUTHOR>
</TITLESTMT>

<PUBLICATIONSTMT><DATE>1998</DATE><PUBLISHER>
Library of Congress</PUBLISHER><ADDRESS><ADDRESSLINE>
Washington, D.C.
20540-4860</ADDRESSLINE>
<ADDRESSLINE>E-mail:  caar@loc.gov</ADDRESSLINE>
</ADDRESS></PUBLICATIONSTMT>

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<PROFILEDESC><CREATION>Finding aid encoded <DATE>April 1998</DATE></CREATION>

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<ADMININFO><HEAD>Administrative Information</HEAD>

<ACQINFO><P>These items have been "acquired" by surfing the 
web.</P></ACQINFO>


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<SCOPECONTENT><HEAD>Scope and Content Note</HEAD>

<P>The items in this "collection" were chosen as examples of electronic 
"binders" or "page-turners" for digital archival objects captured as 
sequences of page images.</p>

<p>These web-based presentations of digital archival objects are built 
from two components: structural metadata representing the sequencing of 
page-images; and a program or script on a web-server that takes the 
structural metadata and generates web-pages that support page-turning 
(next, previous, etc.).  Each institution implements the components in a  
different way; best practices will emerge in time, but strict 
standardization is not essential, given the flexibility of the World Wide 
Web.  In each instance, the link is actually to the program, with an 
identifier for the item as a parameter (after a ?) in the URL.  [Switch 
to style CRA2 in Panorama to see the URLs.]</p>

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<DSC TYPE="IN-DEPTH"><HEAD>Container List</HEAD>

<C01 LEVEL="SERIES"><DID><UNITTITLE ID="OHS">
From Ohio Historical Society 
</UNITTITLE>
<NOTE><p>Uses Microsoft Access to hold structural metadata and Cold 
Fusion to build web-pages based on database queries.
</p></NOTE>
</DID>

<C02 ID="Item1" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID><UNITTITLE>Jacob Bruner to Martha J. 
Bruner;<DATE>9 April 1863</DATE></UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>3 pages</PHYSDESC>
<DAO EXT.PTR="&id1;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
<C02 ID="Item2" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID><UNITTITLE>Jacob Bruner to Martha J. 
Bruner;<DATE>28 April 1863</DATE></UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>6 pages</PHYSDESC>
<DAO EXT.PTR="&id2;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
</C01>

<C01 LEVEL="SERIES"><DID><UNITTITLE ID="berkeley">
From Berkeley 
</UNITTITLE>
<NOTE><p>Uses Ebind DTD to represent structural metadata and Ebind2html 
presentation script.  Structural metadata in Ebind also supports navigation 
through hierarchical outline. 
<EXTREF EXT.PTR="&ebind;">See Berkeley documentation.</EXTREF>

</p></NOTE>
</DID>

<C02 ID="Item3" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID>
<UNITTITLE>Patrick Breen diary 
<DATE>20 November 1846 - 1 March 1847</DATE></UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>32 
pages</PHYSDESC> <DAO EXT.PTR="&id3;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
</C01>

<C01 LEVEL="SERIES"><DID><UNITTITLE ID="LC">
From the Library of Congress </UNITTITLE>
<NOTE><p>Uses flat-file, comma-separated 
dataset and ampage presentation script.  <EXTREF 
EXT.PTR="&pageturn;">See LC documentation.</EXTREF> 
</p> </NOTE></DID>

<C02 ID="Item4" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID>
<UNITTITLE>A playbill for performance by Rentz 
Santley Novelty and Burlesque Company.<DATE>7 January 
1891</DATE></UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>4 
pages</PHYSDESC> <DAO EXT.PTR="&id4;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
<C02 ID="Item5" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID>
<UNITTITLE>Letter from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson
<DATE>6 July 1796</DATE>
</UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>7 pages in letterbook</PHYSDESC> 
<DAO EXT.PTR="&id5;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
</C01>

<C01 LEVEL="SERIES"><DID><UNITTITLE ID="Michigan">
From University of Michigan Digital Library
</UNITTITLE>
<NOTE><p>Uses very light tagging within TEI-Lite DTD with OpenText 
and presentation script.</p>  
</NOTE>
</DID>

<C02 ID="Item6" LEVEL="ITEM"><DID>
<UNITTITLE>A Trip to the Bermudas by S. G. W. Benjamin: [Appletons' 
journal: a magazine of general literature. Volume 3, Issue 6, pp. 519-523] 
<DATE>1877</DATE></UNITTITLE><PHYSDESC>5
pages</PHYSDESC> <DAO EXT.PTR="&id6;"></DAO></DID></C02>
                                                                                
</C01>


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