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Master Image

A digital image that is uncompressed and high-quality, therefore, retaining the best possible color information. It is meant to have lasting utility. Master images are usually saved in a nonproprietary format and kept off-line in a secure environment. Master images are of a higher resolution and quality than the digital image delivered to the user onscreen. An archival master accurately represents the original analog item and has an associated metadata record which provides descriptive, administrative, and technical information concerning the original and digital items.


MCA

Montana Code Annotated


Metadata

Data about data, or information provided about a digital object in order to provide access to that image. Usually includes information about the original object, Montana History Portal intellectual content of the image, digital representation data, the creation of the digital files, and security or rights management information.


MHP

Montana History Portal

The  Montana History Portal (MHP) is an online source for digital collections relating to Montana's cultural heritage. In part, these collections document the Montana experience. Access is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies of historic material, some items are contemporary. All serve as a resource for education, business, pleasure, and lifelong learning.

Many Montana libraries, museums, archives, and cultural institutions add materials to this collection.  Contents may include maps, copies of photographs, rare books, historic documents, diaries, oral histories, audio and video clips, paintings, illustrations and art.


MLC

Montana Library Commission

The acronym often used by the Legislature and Governor's Budget Office for MSLC or Montana State Library Commission


MLIS

Master of Library and Information Science


MLN

Montana Library Network


MLS

Master of Library Science


Montana History Portal

The Montana History Portal encourages cultural institutions to digitize historic and contemporary resources reflecting Montana's rich cultural heritage and to make them freely available for lifelong learning.

Prior to February 2023, this site was known as the Montana Memory Project (MMP).



MSC

Montana Shared Catalog



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