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Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able 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
• Understand the mechanism for including an embedded file inside of a PDF
• Accurately position PDF as a de facto open standard

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for those considering saving large volumes of PDF files as an archive and those contributing to the activities of the PDF Subset for Archiving (PDF/A). Anyone curious as to what, exactly, is inside a PDF file will find this course useful. No particular training or skill is required to understand this class.

James King, a principal scientist at Adobe Systems Inc., 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 the 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 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Explain how JPEG 2000 works
• List the factors that control the performance and usefulness of JPEG 2000
• Compare JPEG 2000 to TIFF and other formats
• Show how metadata is used in JPEG 2000
• Assess the 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 need to understand and assess the implications of JPEG 2000 for image preservation, storage, and delivery.

Robert Buckley is a research fellow with the Xerox Imaging and Services Technology Center in Webster, NY. He is the Xerox representative on the U.S. JPEG 2000 committee, was the project editor for Part 6 of the standard, which defines the JPEG 2000 compound image file format, and has spoken before on the adoption of JPEG 2000 by archives and libraries. As general co-chair of the 1st and 2nd IS&T Archiving Conferences, he has played an active role in establishing this meeting.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able 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: This tutorial is intended for audience for librarians, archivists, and others interested in legal issues related to archiving who have only a basic knowledge of copyright law.

Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been director of the Law Library and professor of Law at the Univ. 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 effects libraries, colleges, and universities. Dr. Gassaway served as the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. College, 2001-02. A list of recent articles and books may be found at: www.unc.edu/~unclng/gasaway.htm.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand what metadata is and the various roles it plays with digital objects
• Explain and differentiate the categories of meta-data relevant to the cultural heritage community
• Recognize the relevant standards and best practices associated with preservation metadata, especially those for digital images
• Assess example digital images and objects and determine critical metadata required to support their access and preservation
• Evaluate existing metadata recommendations and best practices and apply them based on local need/practice

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for staff of cultural heritage institutions, digital libraries and archives who create, acquire, and manage digital objects. Attendees are assumed to be acquainted with high-level metadata concepts, but are not assumed to be metadata practitioners.

Robin L. Dale has been a program officer at RLG for 8 years. In that position, she leads RLG’s key activities related to the long-term management of digital resources. Her current work focuses on trusted digital repositories, preservation and technical metadata, and digital repository certification. She is a regular speaker on digital preservation initiatives and is active in digital preservation standards and best practice building activities, including the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard and the development of various preservation metadata best practices. She currently serves as the co-chair of the task force creating the NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images standard.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand image science principles for digital image conversion
• Describe existing standards to characterize scanner and camera capability and performance
• Connect 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 tutorial is intended for managers, engineers, and technicians charged with evaluating and monitoring scanner performance and understanding how performance metrics connect to other imaging system components such as display, print, and processing.

Peter Burns is 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. Dr. Burns has taught imaging courses for many years, as an adjunct faculty member at RIT, at Kodak, and at several technical conferences.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 200.00	$ 225.00
Student Member	$ 200.00	$ 225.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 275.00
Student Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 275.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand different image states and their relevancy in image archiving environments
• Identify the correct image capture parameters (scanners and digital cameras) and image processing workflow for their image archiving and visualization needs
• Define color image encodings, resolution, file formats, and compression requirements for image files
• Understand the basics of colorimetry and color management

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

Sabine Süsstrunk is 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 Corporation in 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 consulted with several museums, archives, and companies.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand different image file formats
• Understand possible data loss scenarios
• Develop an archiving strategy
• Choose the appropriate storage medium for archiving
• Plan the data migration process

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

Rudolph Gschwind works on imaging technology and photography at the Imaging and Media Lab at the Univ. of Basel. Prof. Gschwind’s reserach topics are image processing and analysis, color photography, color imaging, digital archiving, and preservation of the photographic cultural heritage.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Identify digital printing technologies and digital media
• Describe permanence properties of materials used in digital photography and fine art printing
• Understand the permanence requirements of various imaging applications
• Assess the factors that are most detrimental to media permanence, predict the material’s sensitivity to environmental factors, and learn how to avoid these factors
• Recommend handling and storage conditions adapted to the materials

Intended Audience: This tutorial is an introductory- to medium-level class for those involved in the storage and archiving of digital color images and documents, as well as for scientists and engineers involved in printer/ink and media development and evaluation. Those who provide print for the artist community and gallerists and museum conservators who need to make decisions about print preservation and display will also benefit from this class.

Rita Hofmann has a degree in physical chemistry from the Univ. 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 analy-tical methods. In 1985, she joined ILFORD, where she was involved in work on digital photography, photographic colour science, image evaluation of hardcopy technologies, and the development of tests methods for ink-jet media. She is a long-time active member of the ISO TC42-WG5 subcommittee responsible for standardizing image stability test methods for digital photographic prints and she is currently head of R&D at ILFORD Imaging Switzerland. For several years Dr. Hofmann has given numerous presentations on image stability in ink-jet images, color science, and digital photography.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Because people, not machines, perceive images, we'll examine how people use their images in the real world and why human factors and psychophysics are important to understanding how people perceive change.

We'll take a look at how we measure change and try to predict the future state of our images, along with the pitfalls that are inevitable in this endeavor, and why a holistic approach to image permanence is mandatory.

I want attendees to reach their own conclusions, so we'll try to provide them with the data they need to apply these concepts to their particular environment and needs. Class notes and reference materials will be provided

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

Describe how images are used in real-world environments Identify the causes of image degradation and how they interact Know the four questions you should always ask about image preservation Understand how we measure both objective and subjective change in images Appreciate the pitfalls involved in predicting image permanence Understand the arguments for a holistic approach to image permanence

Intended Audience: This course will be of value to anyone who creates, uses, sells, or preserves photographic-quality images and who wants to understand how these images change over time under the influence of environmental factors. Examples will be drawn from a variety of imaging technologies to understand both their differences and common attributes.

Jon Kapecki is an imaging consultant who was a senior researcher for more than 30 years with the Eastman Kodak Company, where he studied image formation and degradation processes and new photofinishing technologies. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois and has taught courses at Kodak, the University of Rochester, and state universities. He has authored several review articles and encyclopedia entries on imaging systems and is a member of an ISO task group on image permanence standards.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

The three principal approaches to cold storage are described, along with field examples now in actual use, including:

1. Home or commercial freezers with CMI (critical moisture indicator) or vapor-sealed packaging.
2. Safe and low-cost “Sealed-cabinet Sub-zero Storage Method” developed for the Smithsonian Institution.
3. Traditional humidity-controlled, large-scale, sub-zero storage vault.

Examples of archives with the recommended – 4°F (–20°C) and 0°F (–18°C) cold storage are shown and discussed.

Future (announced) sub-zero preservation facilities that will be described include the National Archives of Canada Nitrate Preservation Facility, (Ottawa, Ontario – 2007); the Chicago “City 2000” collection at the Univ. of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois – 2005); and The New Mormon Church Long-term Preservation Archive, (Salt Lake City, Utah – 2005).

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

Describe the criteria used in the design of sub-zero storage Outline the three principal approaches to cold storage and reference examples of facilities using them successfully Discuss the benefits of low-temperature storage for particular materials Explain safe access and handling procedures to maximize long-term preservation of materials in sub-zero storage environments

Intended Audience: This introductory level course will be of value to those who need a good understanding of the sub-zero storage facilities in order to use such facilities effectively or to make recommendations about the preservation of their collections.

Henry Wilhelm is co-founder, president, and director of research at Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. and appears frequently as a speaker on inkjet printing technologies and print permanence and preservation at industry conferences, trade shows, and museum conservation meetings.

Dr. Wilhelm was a founding member of the Photographic Materials Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, is a member of the Electronic Materials Group of AIC, and was a founding member of American National Standards Institute Subcommittee IT9-3 [now incorporated into ISO and known as ISO Working Group 5/Task Group 3 (WG-5/TG-3)] which is responsible for developing standardized accelerated test methods and specifications for the stability of color photographs and digital print materials. Dr. Wilhelm has served as secretary of the group since 1984 and he presently serves as chair of the TG-3 Technical Sub-committee on Test Methods for Indoor Light Stability. He is also an active member of the ISO Task Groups responsible for storage standards for black-and-white films and prints.

Dr. Wilhelm has been a consultant to many collecting institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Corbis on various issues related to the display and preservation of both traditional photographic prints and digital print media.

Mark McCormick-Goodhart is a research scientist specializing in image quality and permanence of digital printing technologies and traditional photographic materials. From 1988 until 1998 he was the senior research photographic scientist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. His research concerned the effects of temperature and relative humidity on cultural materials with particular emphasis on low-temperature storage of photographic collections. His environmental recommendations for use and storage of photographic materials became the standard adopted by the Museums and Galleries Commission in the United Kingdom. From 1976 to 1988, Dr. McCormick-Goodhart worked for Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., where he was granted eight US patents related to non-silver film and electronic imaging technology. In 1997, he co-founded Old Town Editions, Inc., one of the first digital fine art printmaking studios with fully-implemented color management and softproofing capability based on ICC profiles. He is currently a member of the ANSI subcommittee IT9 that addresses standards and test methods for image permanence. His life-long interest in the art, science, and history of photography began as a teenager in 1969 with black-and-white and color printing. He graduated with a degree in photographic science from RIT in 1976.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Describe technical properties of current storage technologies
• Identify characteristics of storage technology components and their interactions
• Determine how to use storage technology depending on application space
• Summarize usage considerations for technology migration

Intended Audience: This tutorial is geared towards technical managers, archivists, and other personnel involved in records storage and/or management. Attendee’s will gain a better understanding of the various types of storage technologies used to store and/or archive digital data. As this tutorial will include discussions related to current technologies and those technologies coming to market within the next few years, attendee’s will be able to identify the most appropriate storage technology and migration strategy for their organization.

Robert Blatt has more than 23 years experience in the electronic content management (ECM) industry. Starting his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979, Mr. Blatt, worked on optical storage and ECM technologies from all technical aspects including design, development and implementation

Since 1990, Mr. Blatt has participated in the analysis, design, project management and implementation of a significant number of ECM-based solutions on an international scale. Mr. Blatt is an industry analyst and is currently the principal consultant at Electronic Image Designers, Inc. He is a recognized expert within the ECM industry and has been actively involved in the development of numerous AIIM/ANSI/ISO ECM standards and technical reports from the participant, project leader, and chair perspectives.

Mr. Blatt was awarded the AIIM Master of Information Technology in 1997 and both the Document Imaging and Workflow Laureate accreditation’s in 1998. He was then appointed to the AIIM-US Technical Advisory Group (TAG), which represents US technology interests internationally. Mr. Blatt is currently the chairman of three national standards committees within the electronic content management and workflow industry.

Prices
	until March 26	after March 26
Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Student Member	$ 150.00	$ 175.00
Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00
Student Non-Member	$ 190.00	$ 215.00