Join us for digiTIPS 2025
DIGITIZING TO INTERNATIONAL IMAGING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
A topical online meeting series of four monthly seminars held approximately four weeks apart with an overarching focus on international standards and guidelines for cultural heritage imaging. Each session includes at least three hours of content and ample time for Q+A, open discussions, and networking with colleagues around the world. digiTIPS is designed to complement IS&T’s annual Archiving conference (this year, June 24-27, 2025 in Granada, Spain).
The 2025 series begins with talks on the framework of best practices that shape international imaging standards and guidelines. The following three sessions delve deeper into cultural heritage imaging programs. An emphasis on how standards in digitization impact each topic area, with talks from a broad range of institutions that represent diverse communities, are part of every program.
2025 Sessions Overview
For a detailed look at each session, click the Program tab. Speakers are added as they are confirmed.
Standards: How We Capture and Present and Why It Matters
Tuesday 18 February
Standards and guidelines construct the framework of best practices that shape how the international imaging community captures and shares digital surrogates of cultural heritage collections items. This session will look at the current state of standards, guidelines and best practices in both imaging and presentation, as well as look to the future to standards that promise to be the next evolution in imaging. Presenters will speak on developing workflows utilizing these standards, evolutions established standards have gone through, new standards to meet new technology, and the importance of standards beyond the act of image capture.
Growth: Developing a Digitization Program from the Ground Up
Tuesday 18 March
Oftentimes the most difficult part of a digitization project is getting it going. Developing flexible workflows to account for unknown future problems, the variety of sometimes stressful environments these projects take place in, balancing needs against budgets that aren’t unlimited; the challenges are numerous for any institution. This session will spotlight a few burgeoning projects, as well as programs which look to support them, and the challenges both face both within and beyond their projects.
AI: How the Technology of the Moment Impacts the Workflows of the Future
Thursday 24 April
There is no technology that is more in the news, and subsequently raising more questions, than AI. How this technology can be ethically applied to the digital imaging of cultural heritage collections is one such question. In this session, both the practical uses and the unmistakable challenges of AI will be examined from the perspective of the digital imaging community. Presenters will demonstrate exciting means of leveraging this technology to improve collections accessibility, as well as discuss challenges AI presents in maintaining collections integrity.
Disaster: Preparing for the Worst, and Recovering When it Happens
Thursday 15 May
No institution is immune to the unexpected and having adequate preparations in place to recover from unexpected events are crucial. Whether these disasters are natural or by mankind’s own hands, total losses or single items, physical or digital, the mechanisms to forestall or overcome these problems are necessary considerations. This session discusses those mechanisms in both preparation and in recovery, and how imaging is a tool in both cases.
FORMAT
digiTIPS 2025 is held online, in Zoom, from 10:00-15:30 NY time. Sessions are recorded and available for three months post session for those who cannot join in real time.