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                       NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE

                        http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf

                     ORIGINAL ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE AT:

                 http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

I am pleased to announce that a PDF version is now available of the First Edition of the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials."

First published online in November 2002, the extensive NINCH Guide creates a high-level pathway in its fourteen chapters through the issues and decisions to be made in digitizing and networking heritage materials, following the life-cycle of digital projects.

Created by practitioners from many disciplines and media who work in museums, libraries, archives, the arts and academic departments, the NINCH Guide is partly derived from extensive interviews at distinguished digitization programs in the U.S. and abroad, conducted by Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII).

The First Edition is only available online. The NINCH Working Group on Best Practices, which created the Guide in association with HATII, is soliciting comments on the content of the Guide in order to prepare a Second Edition that may be published in print. In response to the very large number of requests for an easily printable version of the entire Guide, we have now produced a PDF version.

The PDF file is 242 pages in length and comprises the core 13 chapters and appendices. A background bibliography and the individual reports of the 36 interviews conducted by HATII are available separately from the main NINCH GUIDE website at http://www.ninch.org/guide or, directly, at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

I should like to thank the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and CNI's Communications Coordinator, Shelley Sperry, as well as NINCH's own Sarah Segura, for their time and expertise in producing this format.

Thanks again to the Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust for the funding that enabled us to create the NINCH Guide, and to New York University mfor producing and hosting the online version.

With this version 1.1 of the First Edition, we re-double our call for comments, that can can be made via a form at http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html.

David Green

Executive Director

on behalf of the NINCH Working Group for Best Practices:

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