Join us for a Lively Day Long Workshop on
** Image Databases **
with Howard Besser, PhD., of the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Museum Computer Network
This workshop explores issues involved in the design, management, and
creation of image databases, including issues of image capture, storage,
display, networking, standards and copyright. Examples will be taken from
existing or prototypical image database systems used in a variety of
environments. Though much of the workshop will be applicable to videodisc
and digital imaging projects, the bias will be towards digital storage of
images. The workshop will be a lecture format, with slides and overhead
illustrations. It is intended for museum professionals with little or no
knowledge of the issues involved with image databases. The goal of the
workshop is to give attendees the knowledge needed to engage in image
database projects for their collections.
Howard's energetic and articulate workshops have been enthusiastically
received around the world. Don't miss this chance to learn about the
complexities and benefits of collection imaging from one of the leading experts.
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February 1st
9 am to 4 pm
Lunch will be provided
MIT Museum, Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
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For more information call Kathy Jones-Garmil at: (617) 495-1969 or e-mail
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For directions call Phoebe Hackett at (617) 258-9116.
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Image Databases Workshop February 1st, MIT Museum Registration Form
Name: ______________________________
Institution: ______________________________
Street Addres: ______________________________
City, State, Zip: ______________________________
Phone: ______________________________
E-mail: ______________________________
Number of people attending: _______ Amount Enclosed @ $125 each:
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includes lunch.
To join the New England Chapter of the Museum Computer Network,
please enclose an additional $5. Amount enclosed: __________
Check or Money Order Only. Please make payable to : NEC/MCN.
No refunds after January 2 5th (although you can send a substitute).
If you need a receipt, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Limited enrollment. Reservations confirmed with your check.
Detach form and mail with payment to: Guy Hermann
Mystic Seaport Museum
PO Box 6000
Mystic, CT 06355
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Howard Besser has recently taken a position as Information Systems Analyst
for the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, where he is in charge
of automation plans to build a museum and library for the 21st century. He
is also teaching one class per semester in the University of California at
Berkeley Library School. For the previous 3 years he was Assistant
Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
From 1974 to 1989 he worked with visual collections a the University of
California at Berkeley as Information Manager for the University Art Museum,
and later as Image Database Specialist for the central campus Computer
Center's Advanced Technology Planning group. He was involved with the UC
Berkeley Image Database Project since its inception.
Dr. Besser has published articles on automation of image collections in
JASIS, Library Trends, Visual Resources, Museum Studies Journal, and
numerous other publications, and is a frequent speaker at professional
conferences.
He has developed and taught a graduate-level class entitled
Computer-based Management of Image Collections at both the University of
Pittsburgh and the University of California at Berkeley. He regularly
teaches a reduced version of this class as a workshop at the annual meetings
of the Museum Computer Network, The Art Library Society of North America,
and the American Society for Information Science (ASIS).
He is chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries'
committee of Technology and the Arts, and is immediate past chair of the
Library Information Technology Association's CLSI Scholarship committee. He
is on the Museum Clearinghouse Advisory Committee, is a Canadian
representative to the International Standards Organization's SC 29 Committee
on Multimedia Information, and on the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh
Filmmakers. he is an active participant in ASIS, the Museum Computer
Network, and the Coalition for Networked Information. He has been a
frequent reviewer of grant proposals involving computing in museums for the
US National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently working on a book
on Image Databases which will be part of the ASIS Monograph Series.
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