May 23-26, 2006
Ottawa, Canada

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	Sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology
	In cooperation with:
	AIC	American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
	ALA ALCTS	Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
	CAC	Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property
	Canadian Museum of Civilization
	Canadiana.org
	CNI	Coalition for Networked Information
	DLF	Digital Library Federation
	DPC	Digital Preservation Coalition
	ECPA	European Commission on Preservation and Access
	ISCC	Inter-Society Color Council
	MCN	Museum Computer Network
	OCLC	Online Computer Library Center, Inc
	RLG
	SAA	Society of American Archivists

Proposed Program Topics

File Formats for Digital Archiving

Standards for formats, color and compression

JPEG 2000, METS, MPEG, PDF/A

Containers and packaging

JPEG 2000, METS, PDF/A

Production workflows

creating faithful reproductions
digitization systems and techniques
quality control methods and tools
acquisition and normalization of content

Velocity and impacts

Electronic Archiving & Content Management

Components and architecture

reference models (e.g., OAIS)
repositories
sustainability models (migration, emulation, virtual computing)

Digital asset management
Digital rights management and content authentication
Preservation metadata
Auditing and certification
Economics
Velocity and impacts

Storage Technologies

Permanence and stability standards
Media formats
Data backup and recovery
Software and hardware obsolescence
Cost models

Object cost of storage vs. time

Velocity and impacts

Archiving & Management of Non-Electronic Media

Environmental control
Permanence and stability

hardcopy permanence
film permanence

Storage (enclosures, containers)
Conservation techniques
Indexing, search and retrieval
Velocity and impacts

Electronic Access

Indexing, search and retrieval

Taxonomies vs. text search (or structured vs. unstructured)

Reference tools
Velocity and impacts

Personal Photo Archives

Challenge: saving pictures for a lifetime
Indexing and organizing
Standards for file and storage formats

electronic strategies
hybrid (analog/digital) strategies

Economics
Workflows, services, and tools
Velocity and Impacts

Case Studies

Digital archives
Conservation treatment documentation
Preservation of collections (all types, all organizations)
Personal (“consumer”) digital archives

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