ALA / ALCTS / PARS REFORMATTING DG

[Walter CYBULSKI <CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting 1998
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS)

PARS Reformatting Discussion Group
Sunday, June 28th
11:30 a.m.  - 1:00 p.m.
Washington Hilton & Towers - Military Room
1919 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC

Topic:  MAKE STRAIGHT FOR THE ARCHIVES, FULL SCAN AHEAD: Recent developments in digital input quality and the long term preservation of digital records.

Louis H. Sharpe II of Picture Elements, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, and Thom Shepard of WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts, will be giving presentations and answering questions.  Mr. Sharpe will discuss his work on electronic grayscale de-skewing (correction of "skew" in scanned images) and "ribbon" or "flow-mode" scanning, in which an entire 100 ft. roll of 35mm microfilm can be scanned as an undifferentiated grayscale image.  Mr. Shepard's presentation will center on his work as Project Coordinator for the Universal Preservation Format (UPF) initiative, sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded in part by the National Archives' National Historical Publications and Records Commission.  The UPF initiative proposes the use of a "self-described," platform-independent format, designed specifically for digital technologies, that is capable of storing compound content (the media itself and the information about it) for access today and into the indefinite future.

Moderator: Walter Cybulski, National Library of Medicine
<Walter_Cybulski@xxxxxxxxxxx> / phone 301-496-2690
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