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> From: Prof Bruce Royan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 April 2000 09:38
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> Subject: SEPIA Conference `Written in light'
>
> Subject: SEPIA Conference `Written in light'
> Author: Anne Muller <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
> Date: 23/03/2000 14:08
>
>
> With apologies for cross-posting
>
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> Preliminary announcement
>
>
> Written in light
>
> Photographic collections in a digital age
>
> An international conference at the
> Public Record Office, London
> 12-14 September 2000
>
>
>
> The Public Record Office will be hosting a conference in September 2000 as
>
> part of the project Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access
> (SEPIA) funded under the European Union's Framework Programme in support
> of
> Culture. The conference's aim will be to bring together those responsible
> for photographic collections (such as curators, librarians and
> conservators) and experts in photography and digital imaging. The focus
> will be on issues that must be considered in increasing Europe-wide access
>
> to collections of photographic materials while ensuring the preservation
> of
> those same materials for future generations.
>
> Image digitisation has had a dramatic impact on the ability of
> institutions
> holding photographic collections to reach out to all sectors of society,
> and policy-makers at both national and European levels are keen to see it
> employed on a large scale. Many people have been unaware until now of the
> wealth of material being preserved, often at public expense, and of the
> images of an often vanished world that are available for them to see and
> use. Institutions can now grant unheard-of remote access as an extension
> to
> their on-site reading facilities while reducing the handling and
> environmental changes that result in damage to precious and fragile
> originals. The apparent simplicity of the process is misleading, though,
> and may lead to expensive mistakes and disappointing results. Projects
> still need careful preparation, and expertise from both traditional and
> digital environments has to be shared.
>
> The conference will look at issues like:
> - how to reconcile the varying requirements and exploit the differing
> skills of libraries, museums and archives
> - aims of digitisation
> - technical requirements, image quality, image enhancement
> - selection criteria, user requirements
> - preservation of originals in relation to digitisation
> - cataloguing, descriptive methods, metadata, long-term management of
> digital images
> - workflow, costs, organisational issues, training
>
> Speakers will be experts from Europe and the USA. Apart from plenary
> papers,
> there will be small group sessions on topics like: conservation and
> preservation measures for large collections of original photographs;
> requirements for digital imaging; the ethics of digital
> imaging/enhancement/restoration and copyright. A trade exhibition of
> suppliers of relevant products will be organised, and one afternoon will
> be
> spent visiting institutions with significant photographic collections and
> expertise in their preservation.
>
> For more information, contact Tim Padfield , Public Record Office, Kew,
> Richmond, TW9 4DU, UK, e. [log in to unmask] , t. ++44 20 8876 3444
> ext 2351, f. ++44 20 8392 5295 or consult the SEPIA website
> http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia
>
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