Most of the online collection Buckaroos in Paradise has been
derived from the laser videodisc The Ninety-Six: A Cattle Ranch
in Northern Nevada, published by the American Folklife Center at
the Library of Congress in 1985. A later portion of this
document tells the story of the videodisc project, as recounted
by Carl Fleischhauer, emphasizing the rationale for the
presentation of film and video footage in segmented form and
explaining how the archive of 2400 still photographs was
assembled. The conceptual structure of the videodisc has been
carried over to the World Wide Web. The online environment has
provided the producers with computerized tools that made it
easier to provide hyperlinking between elements and a
computerized database, thus integrating the collection beyond
what had been possible on the videodisc. A variety of sources
were used to produce the digital files for the Internet. The
videodisc's audio tracks were used create the WAVE format audio
files, while the RealAudio format files were derive