American Memory is an internet archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content. It is published by the Library of Congress. The archive came into existence on October 13, 1994 after $13,000,000 was raised in donations.
In 2000 the Archive consisted of more than 5 million items.
Collections were selected for their value for the study of American history and culture and to explore the problems of working with materials of various types (such as prints, negatives, early motion pictures, recorded sound, and textual documents).
Today, in April 1996, a dozen historical collections are accessible on the AmericanMemory web pages, including sound recordings of political speeches from around 1920 and early documentary movies as well as textual materials (books, pamphlets, documents, and manuscripts) and over 30,000 photographs.
AmericanMemory experience demonstrates that it is valuable to establish a naming scheme as part of the initial production plan for digitizing a collection.
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