REVISED to 2 Hours Integrating Advanced Imaging and Digitization into Your Institution
Instructor: Michael B. Toth, R.B. Toth Associates LLC
Level: Introductory
Duration: 2 hours, with a 15 minute break
Course Date: Tuesday 15 June
Course Time:
    New York: 10:00 - 12:15
    Paris: 16:00 - 18:15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Benefits: 
This course enables the attendee to:

• Acquire knowledge around working with advanced imaging, digitization, and curation technologies.
• Gain an introduction to the resources, tools, and capabilities for effective digitization and data planning, development, and management, including:
  • Best practices that are appropriate for advance imaging and digitization program planning, management, and implementation. 
  • Best practices for managing the large amounts of data created by advanced imaging technologies.
  • Guidance and techniques for managing projects and tracking implementation.

Intended Audience: Archiving personnel will benefit from the basic concepts and best practices of advanced digitization and data management. This short course is equally applicable to all project team members. There are no prerequisites except a desire to use effective archiving, digitization, and data management best practices. Participants will also develop increased understanding that can help them capitalize on multidisciplinary support from the scientific, engineering, and information technology communities.

Course Description: The availability of new advanced imaging methods as tools for archiving and research – including multispectral and x-ray fluorescence imaging and higher resolution cameras – present major challenges to archives and libraries as they try to integrate new technologies, large amounts of data, and access requirements. This course introduces best practices for integrating advanced imaging and digitization into standardized institutional and project workflows. It focuses on methodologies for implementing and managing advanced imaging and digitization, integrating new technologies and data, and supporting advanced digital products. This includes collecting, processing, accessing, archiving, and collaborating with digital data from various imaging technologies.

This course supports participants from institutions, academia, and corporate practice as they implement and manage successive stages of advanced imaging and digitization projects from initiation through production and operation, especially with changing technologies, data standards, and tighter budget environments. It utilizes examples and case studies of integration and management techniques and processes that are applicable to digitization and archiving programs of varied cost and complexity in a range of institutions around the globe.

This course provides:

• Instructional modules in digitization, planning, and management that reflect the stages of typical advanced imaging and digitization projects.
• Case Studies in which participants examine applications of imaging technologies and challenges in archiving programs over the past decade.
• Some high-return, low-effort best practices archiving, digitization, and advanced imaging professionals can start implementing immediately for their projects. 

Toth addresses the following core topics, building on his extensive experience with advanced imaging programs in a variety of institutions:

• Tailoring Digitization and Data Management for Archiving. This section helps participants identify how, why, and when different imaging technologies can be most efficiently applied. Archiving professionals need to implement best practices and technologies that are most appropriate to their staffing, resources, and program complexity: One size does not fit all.  
• Full Life Cycle Implementation. This section moves the participants through the full life cycle and challenges of advanced imaging program and data planning, development, and management with case studies, including collection, processing, visualization and analysis, and data management.

Michael B. Toth is president of R.B. Toth Associates and Honorary Research Associate at the University College London. Toth has led advanced digitization and curation projects to provide data and information for global access. With 30 years of experience in program management, systems integration, and planning, Toth has led teams of scholars and technical experts as they help museums, libraries, archives, and other institutions make more data widely available. He has provided program and technical implementation, management, and planning for numerous cultural heritage projects – ranging from the Vatican Library, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai, and the British Archives, to the Walters Art Museum, University of Pennsylvania, and Library of Congress. Most recently he has led teams conducting multispectral imaging of Civil War-era houses in the USA.

For office use only:

Cost:
Member $ 85
Non Member $ 95
Student $ 45

For office use only: