Workshop
Dates:
The Moving
Theory into Practice workshop series is now concluded. We are developing
a new workshop
on digital preservation that we will offer late 2003. If
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Workshop
Goal:
Promote Critical Thinking in a Technical Realm
This workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, curators, administrators, technologists, and others who are contemplating or implementing digital imaging programs. The goal is to provide participants with the means to move beyond theoretical constructs to implementation strategies grounded in solutions that represent current/emerging standards, best practices, and sound decision- making. Participants will be armed with the means to make good choices and, where appropriate, to initiate successful digital imaging programs at their home institutions. Just sixteen participants will be included in each workshop to facilitate their working together to evaluate the pros and cons associated with various technological choices, and to consider pragmatic solutions tailored to their own institutional mission and capabilities. This workshop will be offered a total of seven times in 2000 and 2001.
Fee
and Deadlines:
The National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, is providing substantial support for this workshop series, enabling Cornell to offer a reduced registration fee of $750. The fee includes a copy of Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, lunches, morning and afternoon breaks, the Sunday evening reception and the Thursday dinner. Transportation and hotel accommodation expenses are not covered by this registration fee.
Content:
The workshop will be structured around nine key areas: selection, digitization, quality control, metadata creation, image processing, systems building, access, preservation, and management. The principal text that will accompany this workshop, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (Research Libraries Group, 2000) addresses all of these issues. The majority of the workshop time will be spent in collaborative problem solving and information sharing. A prerequisite for attendance will be a Web-accessible, self-directed tutorial that will introduce vocabulary and key concepts, and cover the core components of a technical infrastructure to support digital imaging projects and programs. Completion of the tutorial will assure that workshop participants possess the same base-level knowledge prior to coming to Cornell, enabling them to focus on issues and learning processes best addressed in a limited enrollment seminar. Beyond the time spent in Ithaca, the workshop will promote continuing education through awareness of additional resources and training opportunities and by encouraging professional links among the participants.
In addition to Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Kenney and Rieger have collaborated on numerous initiatives since 1997, including the publications RLG DigiNews, and co-teaching Cornell's Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives workshop, and RLG's Managing Digital Imaging Projects workshop series. Most recently, they are involved in Project Prism, Cornell's DLI-2 effort that focuses on information integrity in digital library development.
The Digital Imaging and Preservation Research Unit of the Department of Preservation and Conservation has won the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Technology for its "outstanding contributions in research, continuing education and information sharing to increase the ability of libraries to preserve information for future generations."