21st Annual Preservation Conference
Managing the Intangible: Creating, Storing and Retrieving Digital Surrogates of Historical Materials
Speaker Presentations
Speaker's presentations are provided below in Adobe PDF format.
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Conference Details
Monday, April 30
Keynote Address
- Steven Puglia, Preservation and Imaging Specialist, Special Media Preservation Laboratory, NARA
Project Planning
Criteria for Funding Digital Programs:
- Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS)
Digital Project Opportunities at the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Charles C. Kolb, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Infrastructure to Support Digital Preservation Programs:
Planning and Infrastructure for Analog to Digital Preservation Projects
- Linda Tadic, Director of Operations, ARTstor
Digitizing Fundamentals
Creation and Purpose of the Digital Surrogate
- Jim Lindner, Director, Media Matters
Quality Assessment of the Digital Surrogate:
Evaluating the Digital Surrogate Dynamic PDF version
Evaluating the Digital Surrogate Static PDF version
Quality Assurance and Control Measures: Considerations for Audio Visual Reformatting
- Chris Lacinak, Adjunct Professor, New York University, Moving Image Archive and Preservation Program
NARA's Electronic Records Archive
ERA System Functions that will be available for each Increment
- Lee Stang, National Archives, Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
Digital Preservation Programs and Organizational Change
Digital Programs and Organizational Change
- Pierre Gamache, Director General, Care of Collection, Library and Archives of Canada
Tuesday, May 1
Static Imaging
Presentation of Case Studies and Panel Discussion:
Moderated by Kevin DeVorsey, Preservation Projects Officer, Preservation Programs, NARA
Scanning Negative Collections at the Library of Congress
- Phil Michel, Digital Conversion Specialist, Library of Congress
NGA (National Gallery of Art) Digital Imaging Program
- Alan Newman, Chief of Digital Imaging and Visual Services, National Gallery of Art
Digitization Activities at the National Anthropological Archives
- Stephanie Ogeneski, Digital Imaging Specialist, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Linda Tadic, Director of Operations, ARTstor
Panel Discussion
Dynamic Media:
Moderated by Leslie Waffen, Chief of Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch, NARA
"Planning for Digital Preservation and Acquisitions at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center"
- Greg Lukow, Chief of Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Dynamic Media Collections at University of Maryland College Park Libraries
- Kate Murray, Audiovisual Archivist, Archives and Manuscripts, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland
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