NEW Imaging Performance: Meeting Guidelines for Digital Collections
Instructor: Peter Burns, Burns Digital Imaging, and Don Williams, Image Science Associates
Level: Introductory to intermediate, depending on the attendee's interest and experience
Duration: 2 hours
Course Time: 08:45-10:45

Course Benefits
 - Interpret and comply with customer imaging requirements. 
 - Establish accountability for imaging performance problems.
 - Compare various levels of FADGI, NARA and Metamorfoze guidelines.
 - Critically evaluate manufacturers' claims of resolution, color errors, and noise.
 - Learn remediation techniques for solving imaging performance. 
 - Each registered participant (up to 10) will receive an Object-level Target to take home. 

Course Description
This is a no-nonsense course on simple and achievable tools/techniques to meet and maintain image quality for cultural heritage imaging. These include realistic color management, predictable behavior of capture devices, and methods for control of imaging performance.  Specific and practical examples using ISO standards and institutional guidelines are described (e.g., US FADGI, National Archives M–19–21, and Metamorfoze). We will include a hands-on session, interpreting the results from actual institutional test images. Although a new course, it is adapted from our previous series, Scanner & Camera Imaging Performance: Ten Commandments.

Intended Audience
Managers, engineers, and technicians responsible for evaluating and monitoring scanner and camera performance, and emerging guidelines

Peter Burns is a consultant working in digital image evaluation, system monitoring, and image processing. A frequent presenter, he has experience in several areas of imaging: digital photography, mobile imaging, cultural heritage.

Don Williams is the founder of Image Science Associates, a digital imaging consulting and software group. He has worked for several large cultural heritage institutes in the practical implementation of image quality controls and is the prime architect for the GoldenThread image quality evaluation tools against which others are judged. He has taught short courses for many years, contributes to several imaging standards activities.