For the benefit of prospective applicants for Phase II of the Digital
Libraries Initiative, small sample
sets of materials from American Memory are available for downloading by FTP.
The materials available include digital reproductions of pictorial
materials and textual documents. The documents are available both as
page-images and as searchable text marked up in the Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML). Related catalog records, in MARC format, are
also available.
The sample
files are available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.loc.gov in directory
/pub/american.memory/samples/.
- nawsa.tar.Z
- Five documents of varying length from Votes for Women: Selections from the
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection. The
documents are available as page-images, and as searchable text marked up
in SGML using the American Memory DTD. The SGML document includes links
to the page-images.
The compressed archive file (32 Mbytes) was created
using the Unix tar and compress commands. Such a file
can be uncompressed using either uncompress or gunzip,
followed by untar to split the archive file into its component
directories and files.
- nawsa.mar
- MARC catalog records for the five NAWSA documents.
- nawsa.asc
- The catalog records represented in
ASCII with < and > used to separate fields and nest subfields.
- vfwphotos.tar.Z
- Five black and white photographs from By Popular Demand: Votes
for Women Suffrage Pictures. Each photo is available in three
tonal and spatial resolutions.
The compressed archive file (9 Mbytes) was created
using the Unix tar and compress commands.
- vfwcolor.tar.Z
- One color photograph from By Popular Demand: Votes for Women
Suffrage Pictures in three tonal and spatial resolutions.
The compressed archive file (7 Mbytes) was created
using the Unix tar and compress commands.
- vfwpics.mar
- MARC catalog records for the six photographs.
- vfwpics.asc
- The catalog records represented in
ASCII with < and > used to separate fields and nest subfields.
Individual samples of digital reproductions are accessible from the
technical summary for each collection on the master
list of collections available.
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