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- Architecture Image ProjectPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-06-10)In the Spring of 1996, a group of Library faculty met with photographic services (the imaging group: Annette Burr, Gail McMillan, Gary Worley) to develop a plan to support the digitization, archiving, identification and long-term storage of slide collections. This group decided that they would launch a pilot project during the summer. Photographic Services would scan 200 slides place them on a server in Scholarly Communications. SCP staff would design and implement a prototype workflow, storage, retrieval and annotation mechanism using a metadata scheme developed by this group. This document describes a preliminary proposal for implementing the requested prototype. The system must be fully in place by late summer 1996 so that teaching faculty can use it to develop course materials for the fall.
- Blacksburg High School: FORCON ReportMoncure, Henry W.; FORCON International (Virginia Tech, 2010-06-10)Per your request, FORCON traveled to the Insured’s property located at 520 Patrick Henry Drive in Blacksburg, Virginia, to investigate the origin and cause of the roof collapse. We also investigated the structural integrity of the gymnasium floor and first floor supporting walls that remained under the collapsed roof structure. The date of our site visits were March 1, May 10, and May 19, 2010. The following report provides our general observations and final conclusions.
- Digital Images for the Virginia Tech Digital LibraryMcMillan, Gail; Burr, Annette; Worley, Gary M. (Virginia Tech, 1996-03-20)All images photographed or copied by a unit of Information Systems will be scanned and contributed to the Virginia Tech Digital Library. The digital images will be browsable and findable through word searching textual descriptors. The university community will be able to view digital images online according to fair use guidelines for nonprofit, academic libraries. They will be available for faculty to incorporate in their course materials and to students for study and research purposes. Outside the university community, not all digital images will be accessible via the Internet; some will only be available at library workstations and campus computer labs. There will be unlimited Internet access to digital images when the university owns the copyright. No one will be charged a fee to view thumbnails, but there will be a charge to have a reproduction made and this will have implications for the electronic billing tactical plan.
- Digital Libraries and Software AgentsPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1997)Digital libraries will need digital, or software, agents to perform many important tasks such as communication with the user, acquisition of new information and maintenance of the links to that information (assuming that it is external to the structure of the digital library). Fortunately software agents are a diverse breed and there are many different types of agents which can be used to perform those tasks.
- Long-term Course Planning ScenarioMosser, Dan (Virginia Tech, 1998-06)Dan Mosser teaches a course on History of the English Language (HEL). He has been developing this course over the last few years and is especially interested in multi-media resources, speech excerpts, speech analysis game, and so on. He spends several weeks every summer reviewing his resources and searching for new ones to incorporate...
- Montgomery County Public Schools: Blacksburg High School: Facility AssessmentOWPR, Inc.; Montgomery County Public Schools (Virginia Tech, 2010-06-07)Following the collapse of the gymnasium at Blacksburg High School on February 20, 2010, Montgomery County Public Schools requested that Engineers from OWPR, Inc. conduct an assessment of the remaining Blacksburg High Shcool Building. A proposal from OWPR, Inc including a detailed scope of work was submitted to, and subsequently approved by, Montgomery County Public Schools... The results of [a subsequent] analysis may require additional remediation efforts, therefore, determination of a possible date of re-occupancy of the building cannot be made until after July 1, 2010.
- Report of the Scholarly Communications Task ForceMcMillan, Gail; Metz, Paul; Powell, James; Zarnosky, Maggie (Virginia Tech, 1994-05-10)This report was distributed at the May 12th meeting of the Library Administrative Council (LAC) and put on the agenda for discussion at its next meeting. On May 19, 1994 this report was discussed, many of the questions it raised were answered and all of its recommendations were approved for implementation. This version of the report contains annotations (made June 24, 1994), especially to include answers to questions posed, and describes further activities of this task force.
- Research Faculty ScenarioFrance, Robert (Virginia Tech, 1998-12-09)Dr. Charity Miller is a specialist in history of technology. Today she is beginning a new research project in the history of photography. Dr. Miller is technically adept, as one might guess from her specialty, and has taken the time to load a VRML browser onto her high-end desktop computer. Thus, she interacts with the VT digital library through its virtual reality presentation mode, using keyboard and mouse...
- Survey of Four META-DATA CandidatesPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-04-09)You would have a difficult time finding a resource in a digital library without consulting some type of database that contains descriptions of each resource. The information used to describe a book, journal, article or other resource in such a database is called meta-data. There are many formats for encoding meta-data. This document presents one set of bibliographic data describing a single resource in four formats used in various projects related to digital libraries.