Conference call forwarded

[Richard Boyden <richard.boyden@sanbruno.nara.gov>]

To BAPNET colleagues:

Here is a cross posting from the electronic records listserv re a
conference on metadata for networked images and imagebases that
should be of interest

Richard Boyden

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The attached announcement was distributed to the GILS list.  I thought
that the members of ERECS-L might find it of interest.

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Tom Ruller
New York State Archives and Records Admin.
Room 9C71 CEC, Albany NY 12230
(518)474-5561 e-mail:tom@unix6.nysed.gov http://www.sara.nysed.gov
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 07:19:49 -0400
From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <gils@cni.org>
Subject: CNI/OCLC workshop on image and imagebase metadata:
9/24-5/96

>CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST AND EXPERIENCE
>==============================================
>
>Title
>-----
>
>Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images and Imagebases
>
>General Description
>-------------------
>
>The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and OCLC are
>organizing an invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio on
>September 24 and 25 to promote convergence among alternative
>approaches to describing images and imagebases in networked
>environments.  This workshop will build upon the outcomes of
>a workshop that OCLC organized last fall to address the
>general issue of metadata in networked environments.  It
>will address the metadata requirements of networked images
>and imagebases by refining and extending the "Dublin core"
>of metadata elements that resulted from that previous
>workshop.
>
>Digital images ranging from paintings and buildings to CAT
>scans and x-rays to planetary landscapes and astronomical
>objects are now available in great numbers on the Internet,
>and more such images are becoming available every day.
>Widely accepted and used standards for describing these
>images and their associated imagebases are urgently needed
>to facilitate the planning of image creation and conversion
>projects and to enable the discovery of existing images that
>can be used in research, teaching, and learning activities.
>This workshop will bring together a critical mass of experts
>who are working in this area so that they can share
>information on their respective efforts and clear the ground
>on which image and imagebase metadata standards will be
>built.
>
>The workshop will focus on still images, such as
>photographs, slides, and graphics.  It will not deal with
>moving images, such as films, videos, and simulations, nor
>will it deal with images of textual objects, such as page
>facsimiles.  It will, however, capture the requirements of
>the wide range of disciplines (e.g. art, architecture,
>engineering, medicine, and the life, physical, and social
>sciences) that create and use images and imagebases, and it
>will identify the requirements that are common to all
>disciplines versus those that are unique to individual
>disciplines.
>
>Process
>-------
>
>If you are interested in participating in this workshop then
>please contact the person identified below on or before June
>15, 1996 (a) to declare your interest in participating, (b)
>to describe your experience to-date with creating or using
>digital images or imagebases in networked environments, and,
>(c) to suggest key issues or topics that should be addressed
>by the workshop, together with your views on those issues
>and topics.
>
>If you know of a project or a person that you believe should
>be represented at or invited to this workshop then please
>(a) forward this call for statements of interest and
>experience as soon as possible to a representative of the
>project or to the person you have in mind, or (b) contact
>the person identified below as soon as possible with the
>title of the project or the name of the person you have in
>mind together with a brief description of the reason why you
>think a representative of that project or that person should
>participate.
>
>CNI and OCLC are particularly interested in receiving
>statements from and nominations of faculty members,
>researchers, and other "content" originators and users so
>that the workshop might benefit from their participation as
>well as that of archivists, librarians, information
>technologists, and other professional developers and
>managers of information infrastructures, resources, and
>services.
>
>There will be no registration fee for this workshop.  CNI
>and OCLC will take responsibility for all staff, speaker,
>materials, facility, and food expenses arising from this
>workshop.  The workshop participants will be responsible for
>their individual travel and housing expenses.
>
>Contact Information
>-------------------
>
>Please direct questions, statements of interest and
>experience, and nominations to:
>
>   Paul Evan Peters
>   Executive Director
>   Coalition for Networked Information
>   21 Dupont Circle
>   Washington, DC 20036
>   202-296-5098
>   202-872-0884 fax
>   paul@cni.org
>   http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html
>
>Additional Information
>----------------------
>
>CNI, a joint project of the Association for Research
>Libraries, CAUSE, and Educom, was founded in March, 1990 to
>promote the creation of and access to information resources
>in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and
>to enhance intellectual productivity.
>
>OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a non-profit
>computer library service and research organization whose
>computer network and services link more that 22,000
>libraries in 63 countries and territories.  Additional
>information about OCLC and its services can be found at
>http://www.oclc.org.
>
>Currently 212 organizations and institutions, including
>OCLC, belong to the CNI Task Force, a group that makes
>special contributions to the Coalition's projects and
>activities.  Included in the Task Force membership are
>higher education institutions, publishers, network service
>providers, computer hardware and system companies, library
>networks and organizations, and public and state libraries.
>
>Periodically CNI issues a call for statements of interest
>and experience as a vehicle for announcing initiatives in a
>manner that promotes the widest and fairest possible
>identification of institutions, organizations, and
>individuals willing and able to contribute to those
>initiatives.  Each call provides a brief description of the
>initiative in question, and some calls  include supporting
>documents.
>
>Individuals do not have to be affiliated with or employed by
>a member of the CNI Task Force, or of ARL, CAUSE, or Educom,
>to respond to a call for statements of interest and
>experience.
>
>Statements of interest and experience are reviewed by CNI
>staff with the assistance of the leaders of relevant CNI
>Working Groups and the guidance of members of the CNI
>Steering Committee.  Other parties are involved as needed.
>Additional information is sometimes requested during this
>review process.
>
>Reviews of statements of interest and experience are carried
>out in as expeditious and as flexible a fashion as possible,
>taking care to balance the benefits of a wide and fair
>search for individuals able and willing to contribute to
>particular initiatives with the benefits of focused and
>timely action on those initiatives.
>
>Upon selection of the individuals to participate in a given
>initiative, CNI staff notify all those who submitted a
>response to the call of their status.
>
>Additional information about CNI and its program can be
>obtained from the person identified above and from the
>following Internet servers:
>
>   ftp://ftp.cni.org/
>   gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/
>   http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html
>
>Interested parties are encouraged to stay in touch with CNI
>and its program by subscribing to its Internet news
>distribution service by sending the following, single-line
>message to listproc@cni.org:
>
>   subscribe cni-announce <your name, first name first> .
>
>============
>May 23, 1996
>
>


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