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About Letopis'
The Letopis Zhurnal'nykh Statei online project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) Program. Along with grant information, you will also find here other project information such as special announcements, paper and presentations, and staff contributions.

Grant Proposal and Press Releases

March 17, 1999, Russian Periodical Index Digital Project (Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, 1956-1975): Proposal of the Indiana University Digital Library Program


July 1999, IU Digital Library Program To Digitize Russian Index: Cyrillic Goes Cyber.


November 2000, IU Home Pages: Grant awarded to digitize major Russian journals and periodicals


Papers & Presentations

Various papers and presentations were given nationally and internationally about the challenges and victories of the Letopis online project.

  • "Digitization as a Means of Preservation of Russia's Literary Heritage - a case study: The Digitization of the Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei" . . . visit paper
    Authored by George Andrew Spencer, visiting Assistant Librarian and Russian Periodical Index Project Manager. The paper was given in Moscow, Russia at the Managing the Digital Future of Libraries Conference, April 18, 2000.


  • "Digitizing and making a Web Site for the Soviet Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, 1956-1975" . . . visit paper
    Authored by Murlin Croucher, Slavic Bibliographer. The paper was presented in Tallinn, Estonia at the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' Conference, July 26-28, 2000.


  • "Digitization, Coded Character Sets, and Optical Character Recognition for Multi-script Information Resources: The Case of the Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei" . . . visit abstract
    Authored by George Andrew Spencer, visiting Assistant Librarian and Russian Periodical Index Project Manager. The paper was given in Darmstadt, Germany at the 5th European Conference of Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 4-8, 2001.


  • "Creating an XML-Based Scholarly Research Tool: Challenges and Methodology" . . . visit paper
    Authored by John A. Walsh, Manager of Electronic Text Technologies. The paper was given in Orlando at the XML 2001 Conference, December 9-14, 2001.


  • "Unicode Ate My Brain: or The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing a Unicode-Dependent Digital Library Project " . . . visit presentation
    Authored by John A. Walsh, Manager of Electronic Text Technologies. This talk was given in Seattle at the Digital Library Federation Forum, November 4-6, 2002.

People

Russian Periodical Index Project Management Team
Kristine Brancolini - Project Co-Director
Perry Willett - Project Co-Director
Murlin Croucher - Slavic Bibliographer
George Andrew (Andy) Spencer - Project Manager (1999-2002)
Natalia Rome-Lindval (2002-2003)
John Walsh - Manager, Electronic Text Technologies
Ken Rawlings - Lead Programmer/Analyst
David Jiao - Lead Programmer/Analyst
Michelle Dalmau - Interface and Usability Specialist

Letopis Project Staff
Clara Karpelov (2000-2001)
Namsub Kim (2000-2001)
Liudmyla Kortchak (2000-2001)
Irina Poluektova (2000)
Natalia Rome-Lindval (2000-2002)
Natasha Skuratov (2000-2001)
Kathy Wilde (2000-2001)
Stella Hooker-Haase (2002-2003)
Sarah Gilchrist (2002-2003)
Ning Zou (2003)
Natalya Panteleyeva (2006)