diglib: another forwarded message

["JQ Johnson" <jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Some of you might be interested in the attached conference announcement.
What caught my eye was PDF-A (a standard under development as an archival
subset of PDF), which I didn't know about, but which I've now read up on.
If you're interested in PDF/A, the place to start is
http://www.aiim.org/pdf_a/.

-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- The Coalition Information Station
[mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org]On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:08 AM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- The Coalition Information Station
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Digital Imaging and Archiving Conference, San
Antonio, April 2004


CNI is very pleased to be a cooperating organization for this
conference, which I hope will open new dialogs between communities
concerned with preservation, digital imaging, and other areas.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI


Announcing the 2004 IS&T Archiving Conference
  April 20-23, 2004
  The Hyatt Regency Hotel
  San Antonio, Texas, USA
  http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2004/

Sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology
Cooperating Societies: Technical Association of the Graphic Arts - TAGA
	Coalition for Networked Information - CNI
	Online Computer Library Center - OCLC

How will we recover our images and documents a year, a decade, a
generation or a century from now? How we will store and preserve
documents now so as to enable future access? How can we retrieve,
recover and restore the culturally and historically important imagery
of past generations?
This conference will bring together technical experts to discuss the
complex and widely varying topics in the field of archiving. It will
cover techniques for preserving, cataloging, indexing and retrieving
images, documents and records in both digital and human readable
formats.

The Archiving Conference 2004 will include invited presentations by
recognized experts with extensive experience in this field, refereed
papers, and a series of tutorials to cover the technical basics of
archiving. Special keynote presentations are planned, including ones
by Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research on his MyLifeBits research and
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI).

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers for
presentation in any of the technical areas listed below. 750-1000
word abstracts are due October 15, 2003. If you wish to submit a
paper, please use the web-based form and process described at
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2004/authors.cfm

PROPOSED PROGRAM TOPICS

  Digital Image Archiving
  -  Standards for digital formats, color spaces, compression
  -  Indexing and searching
  -  Saving digital data to physical media

  Archiving Conventional Media
  -  Standards for paper manufacturing
  -  Archival inks
  -  Photographic archives, including micro-formats
  -  Storage requirements
  -  Indexing and retrieval

  Digitization
  -  High speed scanning
  -  High quality scanning
  -  OCR and document understanding

  Obsolescence of Digital Media
  -  Software and hardware obsolescence
  -  Longevity of digital media
  -  Cost of media rollover

  Accessing Electronic Archives
  -  Indexing and searching methods
  -  Web portals
  -  Content and digital asset management

  Emerging Digital Standards
  -  PDF/A
  -  JPEG 2000
  -  MPEG
  -  Security and watermarking
  -  Digital rights management
  -  eBooks

  Case Studies
  -  Digital Archives
  -  Long-term archives
  -  Museum collections
  -  Libraries
  -  Film archives
  -  Medical records

  Personal Photo Archives
  -  Personal digital archives
  -  Saving pictures for a lifetime
  -  Indexing and organizing
  -  Digital versus paper

  TUTORIAL PROGRAM PLANNED

A full program of tutorials is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20, 2004.
Proposals for tutorial classes are invited; send your proposals to
Bob Breslawski, the Conference Tutorials Chair at
robert.breslawski@kodak.com.

General Conference Chairs

Franziska Frey, Rochester Institute of Technology, fsfpph@ritvax.rit.edu
Robert Buckley, Xerox Corporation, rbuckley@crt.xerox.com

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