Building Digital Collections:
Technical Information about American Memory Collections
Most American Memory collections contain a document, entitled Building the Digital Collection, which describes how the collection was digitized and what technology was used. Here, these documents have been brought together so that they might be easier to find and read.
| Collections by Original Format | |
| Written Materials (Books and Other Printed Texts, Manuscripts, and Sheet Music) | Maps |
| Motion Pictures | Sound Recordings |
| Photos and Prints | |
| Collections by Digital Format | ||||
| JPEG | MPEG | QuickTime | RealMedia | SGML |
| MrSID | TIFF | WAV | MP3 | |
| Collections by Division | |
| American Folklife Center | Manuscript Division
Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Prints and Photographs Division |