>Image Permanence Institute >----------------------- >Digitizing Photographic Collections: Where are we now? What does the >future hold?--A colloquium for the exchange of information among those >actively involved in digitizing projects, sponsored by the National >Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access and >Image Permanence Institute > >June 7–9, 1997 > >How will institutions use digital images? >What image quality is required? >Do we need standards? >If so, who should define them? > >Questions like these will be discussed at the two-and-a-half-day event. >It will be an ideal opportunity to ask questions and share your >experiences with others in the field. Photohistorians are encouraged to >attend, to add a scholar’s input to the discussions and evaluations. >This colloquium is part of a two-year NEH-sponsored project conducted by >Image Permanence Institute (IPI) to investigate the key technical issues >and problems of digital imaging for use in library and archive >photographic collections. IPI’s project is examining the issue of image >quality requirements and their relationship to institutional policies >and purposes. Results of the project so far will be presented along with >status reports and thoughtful presentations from other institutions and >experts. Speakers and panelists will include Steve Chapman, Harvard >University; Frank Cost, RIT; Nancy Elkington, Research Libraries Group; >Michael Ester, Luna Imaging; Carl Fleischhauer, National Digital Library >Project, Library of Congress; Franziska Frey, IPI; Jack Holm, Imaging >Consultant; Anne Kenney, Cornell University; Constance McCabe, Photo >Preservation Inc.; Paul Messier, Boston Art Conservation; Phil Michel, >National Digital Library Project, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, >National Archives and Records Administration; Doug Rea, RIT; James >Reilly, IPI; Lou Sharpe, Picture Elements, Inc.; John Stokes, JJT Inc.; >Sabine Süsstrunk, Corbis Corp.; George Thoma, National Library of >Medicine; Vienna Wilson, University of Virginia; and other distinguished >professionals in the field. > >The brochure, including an application form, can be downloaded as a PDF >file at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/brochure.pdf. You will need Acrobat >Reader to download this document.(Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for >free off the web.) To request a hard copy of the brochure, contact Jane >Pestke at Image Permanence Institute by phone (716-475-5199) fax >(716-475-7230) or email ([log in to unmask]). > >