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A bumper crop of conference and symposia announcements to bring to your attention. David 1) Symposium on Open Access and Digital Preservation. Emory Conference Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Saturday October 2, 2004 2) The American Museums Digital Imaging Survey Benchmarking Conference Direct Digital Image Capture of Cultural Heritage in American Institutions September 21 - 22, 2004. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. 3) Call For Speakers: AIMM 2005 Philadelphia Conference, May 17-19, 2005 4) The 2005 NFAIS Annual Conference, "Whose Mind is it Anyway? Identifying and Meeting Diverse User Needs in the Ongoing Battle for Mindshare." February 27 - March 1, 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. 5) IS&T Archiving Conference 2005: April 26-29, 2005, Washington DC ********************************************************* 1) Symposium on Open Access and Digital Preservation Emory Conference Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Saturday October 2, 2004 http://www.metascholar.org/OADP-Symposium.html Much of the most innovative output of scholars is today at risk because of commercial threats to public intellectual property rights. In addition, many institutions are now recognizing the fragility of their infrastructures for long-term preservation of digital information. This symposium will explore the opportunities for preserving long-term access to scholarly information through the new model of Open Access publications as well as organizational and technological innovations in digital preservation. Symposium Program Keynote Speaker: David Seaman (Executive Director, Digital Library Federation) The program includes a series of panels by teams of experts that will each address a broad topic related to the overall symposium themes. Panel 1: Legal, Economic and Social Aspects. Dr. Mark McCabe (Economist, Georgia Tech), Dr. Dwayne Buttler (Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication, University of Louisville), TBA (ARL SPARC representative). Panel 2: Technology of Open Access and Digital Preservation. Panelists: Thomas Robertson (LOCKSS Project, Stanford University), Dr. John Willinsky (Professor, Public Knowledge Project University of British Columbia). Panel 3: Institutional Partnerships and Organizational Issues. Panelists: Martin Halbert (Dir. for Library Systems, Emory University, Tyler Walters (Asst. Dir. for Systems and Special Collections, Georgia Tech), TBA (Library of Congress NDIIP Program Representative). Panel 4: Open Access Scholarly Publishers. Panelists: Dr. Jeff Boatright and Steven Cristol (Journal of Molecular Vision), Dr. Ken Carter and Kitty McNeil (Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning), Dr. Allen Tullos and Katherine Skinner (Southern Spaces). Location: Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, GA. Registration $85. The symposium will be held in the conference center amphitheater. Coffee and registration will start at 8:30 AM. Symposium concludes at 5:00 PM. Continental breakfast, lunch buffet and all-day snack bar provided in cost of registration. Wireless access will be available in the symposium facilities. **************************************************** 2) The American Museums Digital Imaging Survey Benchmarking Conference Direct Digital Image Capture of Cultural Heritage in American Institutions September 21 - 22, 2004 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York with an optional 3rd day spent with RIT's Image Permanence Institute For a preliminary program with registration information, please visit: http://www.cis.rit.edu/museumSurvey/conference . Conference topics will include: - Benchmarking survey of digital imaging within cultural institutions - Case studies of 6 trailblazing museums and libraries - Digital imaging in conservation science - Evaluation of digital camera systems - Digital cameras: what's happening in the research labs? - Criteria for camera development - Metadata - The future of digital imaging in the cultural heritage arena There will be project presentations, invited talks and panel discussions. An evening reception will take place at the internationally renowned George Eastman House International Museum of Photography. This conference is part of the Direct Digital Image Capture of Cultural Heritage Project sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. Principal Investigators are Professors Roy Berns of the RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory and Franziska Frey of RIT's School of Print Media. For more information, please contact: Mitchell Rosen Munsell Color Science Laboratory Chester Carlson Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology 54 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5604 Phone: 585-475-7691 FAX: 585-475-5988 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.cis.rit.edu/rosen ******************************************* 3) Call For Speakers: AIMM 2005 Philadelphia Conference, May 17-19, 2005 The AIIM International Conference Team is looking for qualified speakers to deliver presentations at the AIIM 2005 Conference. If you are an end-user, an industry expert, a consultant or analyst on an industry topic, a solution provider willing to present with a client, or any combination of the above, we are interested in reviewing your submission. The AIIM Conference & Exposition is the largest global IT event connecting users, channels, and suppliers of enterprise content management solutions. The 2005 Conference will feature 6 tracks as follows: 1 - Information Compliance (ERM, Legal, Regulatory) 2 - Storage, Preservation and Security 3 - Document and Data Capture (Imaging, Scanning, Forms) 4 - Content Management and eBusiness 5 - Business Process Management 6 - Hot Topics / Cool Technologies All submissions must be received electronically via our on-line form located at http://www.aiim.org/sb_speaker.asp. For your submission to be considered, it MUST be received by September 17, 2004. Should you have any questions regarding the event or the application form, please contact Stacey Kocan-McCormick at [log in to unmask] or 301-755-2686. ********************************************************* 4) The 2005 NFAIS Annual Conference, "Whose Mind is it Anyway? Identifying and Meeting Diverse User Needs in the Ongoing Battle for Mindshare," is scheduled for February 27 - March 1, 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. If you are an information provider seeking to expand mindshare within a given user group or across user groups, or an information professional seeking to more effectively meet the needs of your clientele, this is one conference you will not want to miss! Building upon the theme of the highly successful 2004 NFAIS conference, the three day meeting will examine the differences and commonalities in the search and retrieval requirements of information professionals/librarians and desktop searchers. It will not only look at how those diverse requirements impact the use, perception and purchase of traditional information products and services across market sectors and subject disciplines, but also how traditional information providers - publishers, libraries, database producers and technology companies - can fulfill the needs and expectations of the expanding universe of desktop searchers through a more seamless integration into the user's daily workflow process. The program is being finalized, and a press release describing the conference, along with registration, hotel, and local information can be accessed here: <http://www.nfais.org/press/2005_ANCO_theme_announce.htm> Keep informed by visiting the NFAIS Web Site <http://www.nfais.org> for new developments with regard to the 2005 Annual Conference or contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning, at [log in to unmask] or (215)-893-1561. ********************************************************** 5) IS&T Archiving Conference 2005: April 26-29, 2005, Washington DC This conference brings together technical experts to discuss the complex and widely varying topics on archiving. Techniques for creating, preserving, cataloging, indexing and retrieving images and documents in both digital and human readable formats are subjects that will be covered in detail. Our goal is to benchmark systems that might be in place to preserve our digital and hardcopy information for the future, as well as to identify those areas where systems and technology are not yet up to the task, and further research is of high priority. Of particular interest are digital and hardcopy preservation strategies, issues of format obsolescence, and storage media technology. The Archiving Conference 2005 will include: invited presentations by recognized experts with extensive experience in this field, refereed papers, and a series of tutorials to cover the technical basics of archiving. Special keynote presentations are also planned. Proposed Program Topics Archiving Digital Media .. Software and hardware obsolescence .. Permanence and stability .. Storage requirements .. Format options Case Studies .. Digital archives .. Museum collections .. Libaries .. Film archives .. Photographic collections .. Medical records .. Personal digital archives Personal Photo Archives .. Saving pictures for a lifetime .. Indexing and organizing .. Digital versus paper Strategies and Practices .. Preservation and migration .. Access and copyright .. Digital vs. conventional Digital Image Archiving .. Standards for formats, color and compression .. JPEG 2000 & MPEG .. Scanning and image capture .. Image quality .. Indexing and metadata .. OCR & doument processing Electronic Archiving .. Indexing, search and retrieval .. Metadata standards .. Components and architecture .. Content and digital asset management .. Digital rights management .. Records management .. PDF/A Archiving Conventional Media .. Paper and ink properties .. Permanence and stability .. Storage requirements .. Indexing, search and retrieval .. Photographic archives .. Media including micro-formats Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers for presentation in any of the technical areas listed in the "proposed program topics" section above. For more information, see http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2005/ If you wish to submit a paper, please use the web-based form and process described on the IS&T website at the following address: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2005/authors.cfm