Casorso, 'NCSU DDTP Awarded Continuation Grant', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v18n06 (September 1991)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 18 no. 6
September 1991
Casorso, Tracy M.
"NCSU DDTP Awarded Continuation Grant"


The NCSU Libraries has received a U.S. Department of 
Education Title II-D grant totaling $71,690 to continue the 
NCSU Digitized Document Transmission Project.  The NCSU 
DDTP is a national-level research initiative with participation 
by the NCSU Computing Center, National Agricultural Library 
(NAL), and twelve land-grant libraries.  According to library 
director Susan K. Nutter, the NAL and the land-grant library 
participants are supporting three quarters of the total cost of 
the project through the use of their own staff and resources.

The NCSU DDTP is investigating the transmission of digitized 
documents via campus telecommunication networks and the 
national NSFnet/Internet network.  Project Manager Tracy M. 
Casorso has reported, "We have had a successful first year 
with the project.  Workstations have been installed at thirteen 
of the libraries and network linkages tested.  Over the next 
month we will be beta-testing the system interface and then 
move into production in early October."

Three key objectives set for the new research and development 
phase are to measure system performance, develop a model for 
direct delivery of the digitized document to the researcher, 
and investigate issues related to color and multimedia 
transmissions.