Join an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss the digitization, preservation, and access of 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, and audio-visual materials, including documents, photographs, books, paintings, videos, and born digital works.
Website: www.imaging.org/archiving
Call for papers available HERE
Program Topics
Digitization
- New developments in digitization technologies and workflows
- Advanced imaging techniques and image processing, e.g., multispectral imaging, 3D imaging
- Large scale/mass digitization and workflow management systems
- Quality assurance and control of digitization workflow, e.g., targets, software, automation, integration
Preservation / Archiving
- Formats, specifications, and systems
- Management of metadata
- Standards and guidelines
- Archival models and workflows
Access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials
- Dissemination and use of digitized materials, e.g., rights management, crowdsourcing, data mining, data visualizations
- Formats for preservation and access
- Deep learning algorithms to improve search results; AI, machine learning, etc.
- Open access and open data strategies
- Integration of linked open [usable] data (LOD/LOUD)/Open source solutions/APIs (automated programming interface, e.g., IIIFs)
Management and Partnerships
- Policies, strategies, plans, and risk management; repository assessment
- Business and cost models
- Collaborations and partnership best practices/lessons learned/case studies
