THE NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER PRESENTS:

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS:
Fundamentals of Creating 
and Managing Digital Collections

Co-sponsored by 
Balboa Art Conservation Center - www.bacc.org

MAY 27-29, 2009
Westin San Diego
San Diego, California

THIS POPULAR THREE-DAY CONFERENCE PRESENTS THE ESSENTIALS OF DIGITIZATION
for those who wish to expand their digital knowledge. From file formats to
funding, from metadata to rights management, learn how to create and manage
sustainable digital collections.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Administrators and staff from libraries, museums, archives, historical
societies, and other collections-holding institutions nationwide, as well as
corporate archivists and government records managers -- anyone eager to
learn about digitization basics, selection of hardware and software, and
planning and managing digital projects. 

TOPICS INCLUDE collaboration, planning a digital project, selection for
digitization, scanning basics,
image capture, metadata, sustainability and digital preservation,
outsourcing and vendor relations, essentials of delivery systems, copyright
and rights management, and funding strategies.

ONLINE REGISTRATION OPENS in January 2009.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, read a web story about the 2008 Digital Directions
conference: http://www.nedcc.org/about/archives.ddfl.php, and a recent
article by a 2008 conference participant:
http://www.umkc.edu/KCAA/DUSTYSHELF/DS27-3.pdf (see page 8).

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NEDCC, visit www.nedcc.org

TO RECEIVE AN E-MAIL OR PAPER CONFERENCE BROCHURE as well as immediate
notification when registration opens, contact: Julie Martin,
[log in to unmask]  Please specify paper or e-delivery preference.

NEDCC IS GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
for its field services. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations
expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.

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