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Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Describe the relationships among, and impact of, institutional policies on preservation programs and projects
• Name some critical advantages and disadvantages of developing in-house digitization services
• Analyze how project size and scope affect infrastructure options and choices
• Predict workflow issues that are likely to impact decision-making within their home organization
• Differentiate among a wide scope of options for archiving varied material formats
• Formulate a decision-tree based on leading practices in preservation
• Justify informed decisions on local project structure, funding and equipment.

Intended Audience: This is a “big-picture” session, intended to put digitization and preservation initiative needs into perspective within a larger organization. Information/content managers, librarians and archivists charged with initiating archiving programs and projects in an institutional (and/or collaborative) setting will benefit. The target audience consists of supervisory and planning staff whose role will include putting enterprise-wide policies, budgets, architectures, training programs and staffing in place. Please note that although understanding of technology concepts will be assumed, this non-technical session is intended as an aid to planning and to understanding the broad scope of archival issues.

Geri Bunker Ingram, MLIS, has facilitated strategic planning for information technology and digital library programs in her roles as manager and administrator at three major universities. She has fifteen years’ experience in managing library IT planning, implementation and operations at the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego), and the University of Washington and Texas A&M University. As Associate Director for resources and Collection Management Services and Digital Initiatives Coordinator, she helped to develop the first Digital Initiatives Program at the University of Washington, 1996-2000. Currently, she is consulting with individual libraries and statewide museum and library consortia, emphasizing organizational effectiveness through stewardship and continual learning. Her current teaching includes developing curriculum for, and delivering workshops in, strategic planning, managing digital projects and analyzing infrastructure issues.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Student Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00
Student Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00

Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Understand image science principles for digital image conversion
• Learn how these principles are unified across imaging systems
• Describe existing scanner standards to characterize scanner capability and performance
• Convert today’s vernacular performance terms (e.g., dpi, bit depth, gamma, etc.) to science based performance metrics
• Benchmark or audit manufacturer’s scanner performance with the above metrics using publicly available standards, compliant software and targets
• Identify several digital imaging distortion sources from image data.

Intended Audience: This course is basic to intermediate level for those managers, engineers, and technicians responsible for evaluating and monitoring scanner performance and understanding how performance metrics connect to other imaging system components such as display, print, and processing.

Don Williams is an imaging scientist at Kodak’s Imaging Science Division where he works on quantitative performance metrics for digital capture devices and systems. He frequently consults and writes for the museum and library community on scanner imaging performance metrics and associated standards. He currently co-leads several ISO/TC42 standardization efforts in this area.

Peter Burns is also a member of Eastman Kodak’s Research and Development Labs. His published articles and patent activities have been in the areas of detector performance and image noise modeling, image quality evaluation, color-error propagation, and digital image processing. He has taught imaging courses for many years, as an adjunct faculty member at RIT, at Kodak, and at several technical conferences.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Student Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00
Student Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00

Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Understand the important role of image permanence in the development and successful marketing of new printers, inks, and media
• Differentiate between dye-based and pigmented inks from an image permanence perspective
• Discuss the substantial influence of media and ink receiving layer formulation on the permanence of both dye-based and pigmented inkjet prints – swellable-polymer, microporous, and other types of inkjet media
• Apply accelerated light stability tests and reciprocity failure evaluations
• Explore existing ANSI and ISO image permanence test methods standards - including status of work on forthcoming ISO standards for evaluation of the permanence of digital photographic print materials
• Understand the role of visible light and UV radiation in fading and color balance changes of various types of prints; how much benefit are UV absorbing framing and lamination materials
• Understand the “window test” for display of photographs and graphics in commercial store windows
• Understand dark stability (thermal aging), including yellowing of the substrate, fading, and color shift of image colorants
• Explore potential humidity-fastness issues with dye-based inkjet inks, the substantial influence of media, and applicable test methods
• Understand water-fastness tests with inkjet prints
• Define gas-fading and how it can affect dyebased images on microporous paper as well as other ink/media combinations
• Describe physical degradation – embrittlement, delamination, surface scuffing, and other forms of physical deterioration.

Intended Audience: Administrators and marketing personnel, along with scientists and engineers involved in printer, ink, and media development and evaluation, will benefit from this course. This is an entry-level course intended to give attendees a good understanding of the subject from the perspective of both the consumer and printing systems suppliers in what has become a highly competitive field.

Henry Wilhelm is president of Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. The company conducts research on the stability and preservation of traditional and digital color photographs and motion pictures, specializing in the image permanence evaluation of inkjet prints and counts among its clients many of the world’s leading inkjet printer and media. In 1978 he was a founding member of American National Standards Institute Subcommittee IT9-3 (now ISO Working Group 5/Task Group 3) that is responsible for developing standardized accelerated test methods for the stability of color photographs and digital print materials. Wilhelm Imaging Research is also a consultant to museums, archives, and commercial collections on sub-zero cold storage for the very long-term preservation of still photographs and motion pictures. Mr. Wilhelm has been a consultant to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and other institutions on issues related to the display and preservation of both traditional photographic prints and digital print media. Mr. Wilhelm is a frequent speaker on inkjet printing technologies and print permanence at industry conferences, trade shows, and museum conservation meetings.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Student Member	$ 195.00	$ 220.00
Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00
Student Non-Member	$ 245.00	$ 270.00

Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Identify various digital printing technologies and media
• Outline the permanence requirements for different imaging applications and be able to select the best digital media for an application
• Understand the major factors in the degradation of digital prints and distinguish the right test methods
• Assess the factors that most influence permanence and predict the media longevity
• Apply display, storage and handle rules for digital prints.

Intended Audience: This course is an introductory/medium level class for those involved in the storage and archiving of color images and documents as well as scientists and engineers involved in printer/ink and media development and evaluation. It will be beneficial to print technicians, print providers and technical marketing people who need to make recommendations for the best technology to use for print display, archival prints or guaranteed print life. The class may benefit artists, photographers and other end-users to select the right print media and the right display and storage conditions for their prints.

Rita Hofmann has a degree in physical chemistry from the University of Goettingen. After her postdoctoral studies in atmospheric sciences and air pollutants at the Univ. of Colorado, she joined Ciba-Geigy for research of new analytical methods. She joined ILFORD in 1985 to work in digital photography, photographic color science, image evaluation of hardcopy technologies and the development of tests methods for ink-jet media. She is a long-term active member of the ANSI/ISO subcommittee responsible for standardizing image stability test methods for digital photographic prints. She is currently head of R&D for the ILFORD Imaging Group. For several years she has given numerous presentations on image stability in ink-jet images and color science aspects in digital hardcopy.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course should enable you to:

• Define proper storage for each archival media type
• Categorize their environment by average temperature
• Understand the rationale for cold storage for selected media
• Understand the role of surveys in film collection management
• Choose the best compromise conditions for their collection
• Evaluate suitability of existing storage systems
• Understand the technology needed to monitor and evaluate storage conditions.

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for archivists, conservators, facilities managers, and administrators responsible for collections of photographic, magnetic, or digital media.

James M. Reilly, Director of the Image Permanence Institute and professor in the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, graduated with a B. A. from Franklin and Marshall College in 1968 and an M. A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972. He continued his education in science at RI T. He is well known for his research on the deterioration of nineteenth-century photographic prints, the effectiveness of storage enclosures for imaging materials, the major causes of image deterioration, and optimizing conditions in storage vaults. He is author of numerous publications, including Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints, PI Storage Guide for Acetate Film, and Storage Guide for Color Photographic Materials. He is a consultant to many museums and government agencies and is sought after worldwide as a teacher and seminar speaker. He received a technical achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1998 for his work on diagnostic tools for deterioration of film supports.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course should enable you to:

• Judge for oneself whether PDF will satisfy your archiving objectives
• Explain to others how PDF files are organized at the highest level
• Demonstrate how PDF file format impacts performance in viewing
• Examine a PDF using a text editor and understand the representation
• Identify an embedded file inside of a PDF and understand the mechanism
• Position PDF accurately as a de facto open standard.

Intended Audience: This course would be of benefit to anyone considering saving large volumes of PDF files as an archive, any individual contributing to the activities of the PDF Subset for Archiving (PDF/A), anyone curious as to what, exactly, is inside a PDF file. No particular training or skill is required.

James King, a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is one of the people responsible for the vision, architecture, design, prototyping, and ultimate development of new products and new features for existing Adobe products. Prior to joining Adobe Systems, Dr. King was manager of I/O Systems Laboratory (IOSL) at the IBM Almaden Research Center where he was responsible for guiding research projects dealing with advanced printers, scanners, and displays.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Explain how JPEG 2000 works
• Recognize the factors that control the performance and quality of JPEG 2000
• Describe the JPEG 2000 suite of specifications
• Appraise the architecture of the JPEG 2000 file format family
• Assess the amenability and suitability of JPEG 2000 as a format for digital masters, derivatives and image delivery.

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for those in cultural heritage institutions, digital libraries and archives who work with images and who need to understand and assess the implications of JPEG 2000 for image preservation, storage and delivery.

Rob Buckley is a Research Fellow with the Xerox Imaging & Services Technology Center. He is a member of the subcommittee that developed the JPEG 2000 file format family and is the Project Editor for Part 6 of the JPEG 2000 standard, which specifies the JPEG 2000 compound image file format. He is also the Chair of the CIE Technical Committee on the Communication of Color. Besides serving as the General Co-Chair for the 2004 IS&T Archiving Conference, he is the SID General Chair for the 2004 IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course should enable you to:

• Understand different image states and their relevancy in image archiving environments
• Identify the correct image capture (scanners and digital cameras) and image processing workflow for your image archiving and visualization needs
• Define color image encodings, resolution, file formats and compression requirements for your image files
• Compare today’s image capture and processing technologies and make the correct choice for your application
• Identify image quality parameters for evaluating digital image files
• Have a basic understanding of colorimetry.

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for imaging managers and technicians involved in the digitization, processing, and maintenance of digital images, and engineers who develop hardware and software applications for the archival community. Basic knowledge of digital imaging is assumed.

Sabine Süsstrunk is Assistant Professor for Images and Visual Representation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to that, she was the Principle Imaging Researcher for Corbis Corp., Seattle, WA. She is the Swiss representative to ISO TC42 WG18, and JWG20/22/23, the ISO committees defining digital photography and color imaging standards. She has lectured and published several articles in the area of color imaging for archiving, and has also consulted with several museums, archives, and companies. She is currently on sabbatical, working with the Computational Color Reproduction group at Hewlett Packard Laboratories.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course should enable you to:

• Identify and appreciate the differences between calibration and characterization of an imaging device
• Understand where color management fits into a digital image workflow
• Enumerate the basic functions that color management supports
• Apply appropriate expectations for color management capabilities
• Recognize the fields and tags of ICC profiles and the image processing components of standard Color Management Modules.

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for practitioners and managers responsible for digital image workflows that include scanners, cameras or computer displays as input and computer displays or printers as output. Attending the tutorial on Digital Imaging Architecture is recommended for appropriate background.

Mitchell R. Rosen is a Senior Color Scientist with the Munsell Color Science Laboratory and the Visual Perception Laboratory of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Tufts Univ.. and a Ph.D. in Imaging Science from RIT. He spent a decade in the research labs of Polaroid working on design and support of cameras, scanners, printers and color management systems. At RIT he teaches graduate courses on color systems and performs research in the areas of color management, spectral capture systems, spectral image processing, and spectral rendering systems. He has recently started following an interest in eye tracking. He is color imaging editor of IS&T’s Journal of Imaging Science and Technology.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Summarize general copyright principles that apply to digital archiving
• Identify copyright barriers to archiving both published and unpublished materials
• Analyze local situations, apply copyright principles and determine whether copyright permission is needed for projects
• Create local guidelines on how to obtain permission and how to manage permissions received.

Intended Audience: The intended audience is librarians, archivists and others interested in legal issues about archiving but who have only basic knowledge of copyright law.

Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina since 1985. She teaches courses in Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Law and Cyberspace Law in the law school and Copyright Law in the School of Information and Library Science. She has written widely on copyright as it affects libraries, colleges and universities. She served as the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland, University Campus, 2001-02. A list of recent articles and books may be found at: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/gasaway.htm.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00

Benefits:
This course will enable you to:

• Explain the meaning of “format” as it pertains to archiving
• Understand the components of the “functional” and “informational models” of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model (ISO 14721)
• Contribute to the development of the Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR)
• Use the JHOVE open source program for format validation and metadata extraction
• Use the JHOVE open source tools to create validators for additional formats
• Diagram the life cycle of digital object data management — from authoring to archiving to dissemination — with an understanding of the points at which automated characterization, validation, and transformation activities are needed.

Intended Audience: This tutorial is designed for technical specialists charged with developing and administering systems to acquire, validate, manage, and transform digital content. The class will also be beneficial to collection managers or other administrators seeking to understand the framework of digital archiving and how choices of formats and technical metadata greatly influence the probability and affordability of long-term preservation.

Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library, providing technical leadership for strategic planning, design, and coordination of the Library’s digital systems, projects, and assets. He is currently engaged in research and implementation of effective methods for archival preservation of digital objects. Mr. Abrams is the project leader and editor for ISO/TC 171/SC 2/WG 5, the joint working group developing the PDF/A standard.

Prices
	until March 20	after March 20
Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Student Member	$ 145.00	$ 170.00
Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00
Student Non-Member	$ 185.00	$ 210.00