There are still three weeks left to register for JTS2007, the symposium on
"AudioVisual Heritage and the Digital Universe" from 28th to 30th June.
Toronto is an exciting place to visit in itself, with easy access to
Niagara, (the falls themselves, the historic lakeside town, and the
vineyards), and now is the ideal time to visit, with the Pound and the Euro
both at historic highs against the Canadian Dollar.
Program topics (http://www.jts2007.org/program.htm). include:
. Mass Migration of A/V Collections,
. New Tools for Film Sound Restoration,
. Preserving Digital Public Television,
. Restoring Motion Pictures in 4K Workflow,
. EDCINE: A System for Conservation and Access based on MXF and
JPEG2000,
. Video Archiving and Digitization,
. Mass Storage Architecture and Workflow,
. Reports on Magnetic Media Studies,
. Media Condition Assessment and Environmental Monitoring of Moving
Image Collections through Web-based Technology,
. New Tools for Content Assessment and Migration,
. Designing Digital Repositories for A/V collections,
. Selection Criteria for Analogue and Digital Content,
. Film Archive Challenges in the Digital Cinema Era,
. Quality Control in Digital Cinematography,
. Research on JPEG 2000 for Video Archiving
. The Motion Picture Archive: A Real-World Implementation,
. MEMORIES: Design for an audio advanced acquisition & semantic
indexation system allowing information retrieval for the access to archive
content in Open Archival Information Systems,
. Archiving Meets Automatic Speech Recognition - Curse or Blessing?
. Digital Archiving of Motion Pictures,
. Non-Contact Surface Metrology for Preservation and Sound Recovery
from Mechanical Sound Recordings.
Register now for the JTS at: http://www.jts2007.org/registration.htm
Accommodation information is also available, with a special hotel rate for
JTS guests at the nearby Marriott Courtyard Hotel, plus a bulk deal for
student style accommodation on the Victoria University campus where the
Symposium will be held. It is important to register and to reserve your
room early! There is a large event in Toronto the week of JTS and rooms
will be hard to find.
JTS 2007 is being host-coordinated by the Association of Moving Image
Archivists on behalf of the Co-ordinating Council of AudioVisual Archives
Associations (www.ccaaa.org).
See you in Toronto!
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