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Archiving 2007 Call for Papers Announced August 14, 2006 The Society for Imaging Science and Technology announces the Call for Papers for Archiving 2007 to be held May 21-24, 2007 in Arlington, VA. The deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2006 and a PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007. Paper proposals should be submitted according to the process described at http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/authors.cfm The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from across the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the November 1st deadline. Proposed program topics include: * Archiving and Technology * File Formats * Standards (formats, color space, compression) * Containers and packaging (e.g. METS, XFDU) * Digitization workflows and techniques (scanning, OCR, image workflows) * Storage technology and strategies * Automated metadata extraction/harvest * Creating and Managing Digital Collections * Selecting content, creating collections * Categories of content type (e-mail, images, audio, video, data) * Creating digital repositories * Content and digital asset management * Metadata for access * Rights management and Intellectual property issues * Auditing and certification of trusted repositories * Access, search, retrieval * Indexing, taxonomies, text searching * Digital Preservation * Preservation methodologies (research into solutions) * Metadata for preservation * Preservation planning (risk assessment, disaster planning, preservation process assessment) * Preservation workflows Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Felecia Marsh IS&T Conference Assistant [log in to unmask] 703/642-9090 x 105