We propose to include only projects that display at least aspect of the digital process. This allows us to exclude the many websites that contain valuable information on Eastern Europe and Eurasia but should not be considered digital projects.

1. Reformatting v. "new model" (born-digital) scholarship. The inventory will include both reformatting projects and born-digital scholarship, but the only born-digital resources that will be included are those which use descriptive markup.

2. Single-text/single-format corpus v. multifaceted archive (texts, images, audio). The inventory will include projects with resources in any format.

3. Primary v secondary sources. The inventory will include projects with primary sources, secondary sources, or both, as well as reformatted bibliographic sources. (Born-digital bibliographic sources are not included.)

4. Full-text (historical, literary) v. indexing/bibliographic. Full-text sources are always included unless they are born-digital and do not use descriptive markup. Indexes and bibliographic sources are only included if they are reformatted from non-digital originals.

5. Text v. numeric/multimedia. Projects delivering text are always included unless the sources are born-digital and do not use descriptive markup. Numeric data is excluded only when in a database. Multimedia projects are always included.

6. Freely-accessible v. fee-based. No project is excluded purely because a fee may be charged for access. However, purely commercial ventures are excluded.

7. Internet-based v Intranet (password)-based. Any project in digital form is eligible for inclusion.

8. CD-ROMS: networked v non-networked. Any project in digital form is eligible for inclusion.

9. Access v preservation. Projects are included that have goals of providing access, preserving materials, allowing for scholarly analysis, or any combination. Only purely commercial ventures are excluded.

10. Academic versus commercial. Purely commercial ventures are normally not included in the inventory; however, parternships among libraries, non-profits, and commercial organizations are eligible for inclusion even though they have a commercial component.

The group will begin by considering coverage of projects taking place in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and in Western Europe, as well as in North America. The inventory will include projects whose content deals ONLY with Slavic, East European, and Eurasian countries or residents of them. The project itself may be created, funded, or hosted outside these countries. We have not yet decided whether to include materials with a focus on emigre communities outside these countries.

1. Wholly commercial enterprises

2. Card catalogs turned into OPACs

3. Digital repositories and archives

4. Portals, online forums, and lists of links on a topic. Many of these sites contain or link to digitalized resources but are not themselves digital projects according to our definition.

5. Webpages with information on digital processes

6. Lists, inventories, or catalogs of digital resources

7. Library guides and finding aids that are neither reformatted from print originals nor use descriptive markup

8. Born-digital keyboarded texts

9. Instructional aids

10. Databases without digitized materials

12. Journal aggregators

<li><a href="URL for the project">Name of the project</a><strong>[<a href="http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/inventory/retrieveproject.php?projectid=ID of the project as it is listed in the dbo_Projects table in Microsoft Access database">inventory record</a>]</strong></li>

<li><a href="URL for the project">Name of the project</a><strong>[inventory record]</strong></li>