Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.10] (HELO [192.100.21.10]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.3) with ESMTP id 782213 for cni-announce@cni.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:08:38 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: clifford@mail2.cni.org Message-Id: Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:08:22 -0700 To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Digital Imaging and Archiving Conference, San Antonio, April 2004 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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