IS&T Archiving 2005 preliminary program released

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The IS&T Archiving 2005 preliminary program has been released. IS&T Archiving
2005 will be held April 26 to 29, 2005 at the Hilton Washington Hotel in
Washington DC, USA.
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2005/

General Co-chairs, Rob Buckley (Xerox) and Franziska Frey (RIT), along with
their distinguished program and advisory committee, have assembled a strong
line-up of more than 60 technical papers and a first-rate tutorials program
for IS&T's second meeting to focus entirely on archiving and preservation
issues.

The meeting builds on the success and the enthusiasm created by last year's
Archiving conference and confirms the timeliness and relevance of this meeting
designed to bring together a diverse group of attendees from academia,
industry, museums, libraries, government institutions, and not-for-profit
organizations.

This conference promises to further the Imaging Society's goal of building a
unique international community that links multiple organizations and
specialties in the domains of archiving, preservation, and imaging science and
technology. Along with an excellent tutorial program, outstanding keynote
speakers, and a papers program with high-level presenters from around the
world, we have planned special events to allow you to get to know your
colleagues.  The Conference Reception will be held Wednesday evening and
"Behind the Scenes" tours of imaging and archiving facilities in the DC area
have been arranged for Friday afternoon after the conference concludes.

We invite you to be a part of it all! Early registration discounts are
available until March 26th.  We encourage you to register as soon as possible
for tutorials classes, tours and hotel reservations.  Springtime in
Washington, is very beautiful and a popular destination. We expect the hotel
to fill up quickly -  so please make your plans early.

A short summary of IS&T Archiving 2005 is appended below. Details including
paper abstracts, tutorial course descriptions, and meeting and hotel
reservation forms are available at
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2005/

Regards,

Pamela Forness, IS&T Meetings
Program Manager


IS&T Archiving 2005
More than 60 technical papers arranged in a single-track format will promote
the exchange of information across various specialties. The three-day
conference program features invited presentations and peer-reviewed papers by
recognized experts with extensive experience in this field. Techniques for
preserving, cataloging, indexing, and retrieving images and documents in both
digital and human readable format are subjects to be covered in detail.
Archiving 2005 will benchmark systems that might be in place to preserve our
digital and hardcopy information for the future, as well as identify those
areas where systems and technology are not yet up to the task and further
research is of high priority. Accordingly the interfacing of digital and
hardcopy preservation strategies, issues of format obsolescence, and storage
media technology are of particular interest.

Each day begins with a keynote address:
- Wednesday - Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for library services, US
Library of Congress, "The Views of Archiving from the Library of Congress
- Thursday - Clifford A. Lynch, executive director Coalition for Networked
Information, "Archiving, Stewardship, Curation: From the Personal to the
Global Sphere;"
- Friday - Helen Shenton, head of Collection Care, British Library, "Real
Time, Deep Time, Life Time?Spanning Digital and Traditional Collections
Life Cycles"

Oral papers are grouped around current themes such as, Rethinking
Repositories, Hard Copy Permanence, Imaging and Digital Imaging, Digital
Archiving: Metadata, Formats for Digital Archiving; and Migration: Methods and
Tools. Special Focal Papers and Case Studies sessions promise to be highlights
of the meeting.  The conference will end on Friday with a special session on
"Breaking News from the Multi-million Book Projects."

The Interactive Poster Session on Thursday afternoon will provide the
opportunity for presenters and attendees to mingle and discuss results
presented using a variety of media formats.

Tutorials
Eleven tutorials are offered in 3 tracks on Tuesday, the day prior to the
opening of the papers program. Attendees may choose to follow a single track
all day or personalize their course program to meet their individual
educational or professional needs.

Track 1 - Formats and Metadata
T1 Introduction to the Insides of PDF (James King, Adobe)
T2 JPEG 2000 for Cultural Heritage Institutions: Metadata, Access &
Archiving (Rob Buckley, Xerox)
T3 Copyright Law and Archiving (Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina)
T4 Metadata: A Piece of the Preservation Puzzle (Robin Dale, RLG)

Track II - Imaging Science and Archiving Infrastructure
T5 Evaluating Digital Scanner and Camera Imaging Performance (Peter Burns
and Don Williams, Kodak)
T6 Digital Imaging Architecture for Archiving Applications (Sabine
Susstrunk, EPFL Switzerland)
T7 Long Term Archiving of Digital Images (Rudolf Gschwind, University Basel)

Track III - Media and Storage
T8 The Stability of Materials used in Digital Hardcopy (Rita Hofmann,
Ilford Switzerland)
T9 When Good Images Go Bad: Understanding Image Permanence (Jon Kapecki,
Imaging Consultant)
T10 The Highest Standard of Care: Small and Large-scale Sub-zero Storage
for the Long-term Preservation of B&W and Color Photographs, Glass Plates,
Motion Pictures, Paper Documents, Newspapers, Magazines, Books and
Electronic Media (Henry Wilhelm and Mark McCormick-Goodhart, Wilhelm Imaging)
T11 Current and Future State of Storage Technologies (Bob Blatt, Image
Designers, Inc.)

Cooperating Organizations
AIC (American Institute for Conservation)
ALCTS (Assn. for Library Collections & Technical Services)
CNI (Coalition for Networked Information)
DLF (Digital Library Federation)
DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition)
ECPA (European Commission on Preservation and Access)
ISCC (Inter-Society Color Council)
MCN (Museum Computer Network)
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
RLG (Research Library Group)
SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering)
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