Society of Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) digital archiving conference

Archiving 2013
Washington, DC
Digital Archiving
April 2-5, 2013

For anyone dealing with digital preservation, Archiving 2013 will be
held in Washington, DC, April 2- 5, 2013.  This conference is being
put on by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology in
co-operation with

    The American Institute for Conservation of historic and Artistic
    Works (AIC)

    The American Library Association- Association for Library
    Collections and Technical Services (ALA-ALCTS)

    The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

    The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)

    The Museum Computer Network (MCN)

    The Royal Photographic Society/Imaging Science Group

    The Society of American Archivists

Conservators might be interested in taking a course dealing with
scanner and camera imaging performance.

Intended Audience: Managers, engineers, and technicians interested
in evaluating and monitoring scanner and camera performance and
emerging guidelines.  This includes manufacturers, service
providers, and content custodians.  A working knowledge of digital
scanner and camera operation and the common technologies is assumed.

I also point out a few choice talks:

    "Developing Open-Source Software for Art Conservators"
        Min H. Kim, Holly Rushmeier, John ffrench, and Irma Passeri
        Yale University (USA)

    "Design and Implementation of an Automated Workflow for Video
    Art Archiving"
        Maria Esteva, Karla Vega, Summer Gunnels, David Walling,
        Keerthana Kumar University of Texas at Austin;

        Bethany Scott
        Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (USA)

    "Preservation of Digitally Originated Motion Images on Film: An
    Integrated Systems Approach"
        Cindy A. Fitzgerald and John C. Rutter
        Eastman Kodak Company (USA)

    "Quality Assurance Methods for Online Image Representations"
        William Scott Geffert
        Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA)

    "Software Archaeology and the Preservation of Code-based Digital
    Art"
        Francis T. Marchese
        Pace University (USA)

Just a few highlights:

    There are two keynote addresses.  The first is "A 21st Century
    Transformation: the Presidential Memorandum on Managing
    Government Records and its Implications" given by Paul M.
    Wester, Jr., Chief records officer, NARA

    And the second is "The Identification of US POWs and MIAs from
    the Korean War via the Recovery and Digitization of Deteriorated
    Acetate X-ray" given jointly by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
    Command and Doug Munson at the Chicago Albumen Works

The talks sessions are

    Digital Preservation I
    Archiving of Art
    Film as Storage Medium
    Interactive Papers
    Imaging Technology I
    Imaging Technology II
    Digital Preservation II
    Metadata and Access
    Standards and Guidelines
    Quality Management
    Digital Forensics and File Formats
    Innovative Software, Projects, and Activities

New to this conference is Curatecamp, a short "unconference" where
the agenda is determined by the participants around the theme,
"Digitized/Born Digital Together".

For more information see

    <URL:http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/Archiving%202013%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf>

Registration forms can be found at

    <URL:http://www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/Archiving%202013%20Registration.pdf>

Note that the registration rates have been reduced this year.

Douglas Nishimura
Image Permanence Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology


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