SURA/ViDe workshop early registration closing Please excuse cross-posting. Early registration is closing Feb. 22 for the Sixth Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop in Indianapolis, March 22-25, 2004. Register now for $175. After Feb. 22, registration will be $225. Details follow, but of special interest to members of this list are three sessions on Wednesday, March 24, hosted by Kristine Brancolini, Director of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, and Jon Dunn, Assistant Director for Technology for the Digital Library Program. The first session, on Digital Rights Management, will include an overview by Grace Agnew, Rutgers University; a presentation on MPEG21 by Brad Gandee, ContentGuard; and a presentation on using DRM in continuing education by Robert Middleton, University of Alabama in Huntsville. The second session, on Digital Video in Libraries and Archives, will include a presentation by Jerry McDonough, New York University Digital Library Team (the creator of the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard - METS); a presentation on how to select video systems for libraries by Allan Rough, University of Maryland Libraries; and a presentation on Indiana University's ethnomusicological digital video archive project by Will Cowan, Indiana University. The third session, on Collaborative Collection Development, will include a presentation on Digital Well by Jim DeRoest, ResearchChannel; a report on the status of the Moving Image Collections Project (sponsored by National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists) by Grace Agnew, Rutgers University; and a description of SURFnet's video portal to support education and research in the Netherlands by Egon Verharen, SURFnet. This year's workshop, sponsored by RADVision and Microsoft, includes the following program highlights: * Keynote speaker Fred Kitson, director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab, Hewlett Packard * Digital video over IP, including telemedicine and classroom applications * H.350 and PBS post-conference workshop previews * Second day tracks on - Managing digital media collections - Digital rights management - Data collaboration - MPEG4 - International initiatives - Multicasting and AccessGrid - Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - K-12 applications - Extreme video (very high bandwidth) - Accessibility Early registration will also close Feb. 22 for the post-conference PBS workshop: Education, Public Broadcasting and the Internet: Keys to Collaboration ($175 now, $225 afterward). Registration ends March 12 for the H.350 post-conference workshop: Directory Services for Multimedia Networks ($250 academic and research network attendees, $350 corporate and commercial attendees). Registration will be ongoing for the Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training pre-conference workshop ($100). For more information on all four events, see the conference website: http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2004 . Dan Kniesner Oregon Health & Science University Library Portland Oregon [log in to unmask] 503-494-3216 fax 503-494-3227