31. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY–NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TEXT DIGITIZING PROGRAM
DESC: NAL and 45 Land Grant Libraries have conducted a cooperative effort to test the feasibility of using optical scanning and text recognition technologies to capture printed agricultural materials in machine-readable form. The resulting image and text data were then published on CD-ROM discs for distribution to the agricultural community.
CONTACT: Judith A. Zidar, NATDP Coordinator, USDA, NAL, ISD. Rm. 013, 10301 Baltimore Blvd. ,Beltsville, MD 20705-2~5l, Phone: (301) 504-6813, Fax: (301) 504-7473 [jzidar@nalusda.gov]
REF: “National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project: Toward the Electronic Library.” November 1992. (available from NAL)
