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. ---------------------------------------------------------- February 1st 9 am to 4 pm Lunch will be provided MIT Museum, Massachusetts Avenue, Boston ---------------------------------------------------------- For more information call Kathy Jones-Garmil at: (617) 495-1969 or e-mail [log in to unmask] For directions call Phoebe Hackett at (617) 258-9116. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: __________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Guy Hermann | Mystic Seaport Museum | The dancers go round Internet: [log in to unmask] | Mystic, Connecticut, USA | They go round and around!