About This Site
Snow surveying: Paul Ginter and Ralph Parshall sampling snow at Bear Lake, Estes Park. Picture taken by Grant Eddy. May 1941.
Aerial photo of Kiowa Creek, 2 miles south of Bennett (on the eastern plains of Colorado). A tributary of South Platte. July 1964.
Background
The present site, released June 2005, is part of the Western Waters Digital Library. The initial phase of this project, a two-year effort launched in 2003 and led by the Greater Western Library Alliance, was funded with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Technical Information
Text of original reports was scanned and saved in TIFF format. Optical character recognition (OCR) was performed by opening the TIFF files in Scansoft's OmniPage Pro and using its blocking and OCR tools, and the results were saved as text files. The TIFF files were used to generate compound objects in CONTENTdm, a digital collection management database application. This process included automatic generation of access and thumbnail images and incorporation of the text files as searchable transcripts at the page level. CONTENTdm also contains Dublin Core metadata (descriptive, administrative, and structural information) about each of the digital objects.
Credits
The following staff of the Colorado State University Libraries is responsible for contributing to the development of this Web site: Dawn Bastian, Nancy Chaffin Hunter, Lynn Jickling, Tami Morse McGill, Dennis Ogg, Patty Rettig, Conni Succo, and Gregory Vogl.
Copyright
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except as provided herein for educational purposes and non-commercial personal use.
