Digital Training Workshops
Dept. of Preservation and Conservation (mailto:preserve@CORNELL.EDU)
Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:25:49 -0500
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:25:49 -0500
From: "Dept. of Preservation and Conservation" <mailto:preserve@CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: Digital Training Workshops
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>DIGITAL TRAINING WORKSHOPS: USE OF DIGITAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR PRESERVATION
>AND ACCESS
>
>Dates:
>
>June 12-16, 1995
>August 14-18, 1995
>October 9-13, 1995
>March 18-22, 1996
>
>Organized by:
>CORNELL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
>
>Co-sponsored by:
>THE COMMISSION ON PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
>
>
>The Cornell University Department of Preservation and
>Conservation announces its offering of a series of digital
>training workshops. The workshops are designed as intensive one-
>week training programs to provide participants with the means to
>develop a baseline knowledge about the use of digital image
>technology for preservation and access. The training will focus
>on the reformatting of paper- or film-based library materials,
>including books, serials, archives, manuscripts, graphic
>materials, and photographs. Primary emphases will be placed on
>the conversion process itself, on an examination of factors
>affecting image quality, and on the use of digital imaging in a
>preservation context.
>
>Each workshop will combine the practical with the theoretical.
>Participants will select samples of materials from their own
>collections to bring to Cornell for scanning. During the
>workshop, participants will be introduced to the vocabulary and
>concepts of digital image technology, the components of imaging
>systems and their attendant costs, factors affecting conversion
>quality and the longevity of digital information, and access-
>related issues. Through presentations, review of computer-
>projected illustrations, hands-on exercises, six hours of
>directed lab assignments, demonstrations of current digital
>projects, and an extensive training notebook, participants will
>gain an understanding of how bitonal, grayscale, and color
>scanning affect the capture, storage, and use of a broad range of
>library materials.
>
>The workshop is intended for preservation administrators,
>librarians, archivists, records managers, curators, and other
>information professionals who are responsible for collecting,
>preserving, and making accessible documentary materials.
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>INSTRUCTORS
>
>Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman will serve as the principal
>faculty for these workshops. They will be joined by several
>guest instructors, including James Reilly who will present a
>session on digital conversion of photographic materials.
>
>Anne R. Kenney is the Associate Director of the Department of
>Preservation and Conservation at Cornell. For the past five
>years, Kenney has managed and co-managed the majority of
>Cornell's digital imaging projects. She also developed the New
>York State digital training workshop concept and served as one of
>the principal instructors in that series. Kenney is the past
>president of the Society of American Archivists, and serves as
>one of two American representatives to the Committee on Image
>Technology of the International Council on Archives.
>
>Stephen Chapman is the New York State Preservation Intern
>(through March 1995) in the Cornell University Department of
>Preservation and Conservation. Chapman is the project liaison
>for the NEH-funded "Digital to Microfilm Conversion Project" and
>was an instructor in the New York State digital training series.
>He has co-authored with Anne R. Kenney the tutorial, "Digital
>Resolution Requirements for Replacing Text-Based Material:
>Methods for Benchmarking Image Quality", to be published by the
>Commission on Preservation and Access in the spring of 1995.
>
>James Reilly, Director, Image Permanence Institute, has been
>designing, executing, and directing research into photographic
>preservation since 1978. He most recently participated in the
>RLG Technical Images Test Project, which investigated how various
>choices in capture, display, compression, and output affect image
>quality for photographic materials.
>
>INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE:
>
>Since 1990, Cornell has been investigating the use of digital
>image technology for preservation and access. With private,
>public, and corporate support, the Department of Preservation and
>Conservation has undertaken a series of projects to digitize
>research library materials and to produce high quality paper and
>microfilm replacements. The projects also assessed the role of
>digital technology in providing networked access to library and
>archival resources.
>
>
>SCHEDULE
>
>Schedule for Workshop 1: June 12-16, 1995
>
>Monday, June 12
>
>8:00-8:30 a.m. REGISTRATION.
>
>8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. THEORETICAL OVERVIEW. Concepts and
>vocabulary of digital imaging; document categories and scanning
>characteristics affecting image quality; selection for
>preservation; determining quality benchmarks for digital
>reformatting.
>
>3:45-5:00 p.m. SCANNING OVERVIEW. Basic operations associated
>with bitonal, grayscale, and color scanning as they relate to
>image capture; introduction to resolution, tonal correction, and
>sharpening; assessment of effectiveness in converting a variety
>of document categories.
>
>Tuesday, June 13
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>8:00-10:00 a.m. IMAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS: CAPTURE AND DISPLAY.
>Relationship between image quality/throughput considerations and
>hardware/software capabilities of scanners and monitors.
>
>10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. IMAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS: NETWORK
>TRANSMISSION, PRINTING, AND STORAGE. Network links and
>hardware/software issues related to storage, transmission,
>retrieval, and printing of digital images from local and remote
>locations.
>
>1:30-2:45 p.m. SCANNING PRINTED TEXT. Introduction to basic
>techniques used for capturing printed text and line art; utility
>of bitonal scanning and the role of resolution and image
>enhancement.
>
>3:00-4:00 p.m. SCANNING MANUSCRIPTS. Issues associated with
>conversion of handwritten materials and effects of physical
>deterioration on image quality; tradeoffs in quality, file size,
>and portability associated with bitonal, grayscale, and color
>scanning.
>
>4:00-6:00 p.m. SCANNING LAB I (track one): TEXT AND
>MANUSCRIPTS.
>
>Wednesday, June 14
>
>8:00-10:00 a.m. SCANNING LAB I (track two): TEXT AND
>MANUSCRIPTS.
>
>10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SCANNING ILLUSTRATIONS. Issues associated
>with digitizing the range of illustration types found in books
>published over the past century and a half; review of
>illustrations and reproductions produced xerographically and
>through binary and grayscale scanning.
>
>12:00-1:30 p.m. OPTIONAL LAB. Participants will be able to scan
>their own documents.
>
>1:30-3:45 p.m. SCANNING PHOTOGRAPHS. Assessment of key
>technical issues and problems associated with the digital
>reformatting of a variety of types and formats of photographs and
>photographic intermediates; range of technical choices and
>practically obtainable results will be explained and
>demonstrated.
>
>4:00-6:00 p.m. SCANNING LAB II (track one): ILLUSTRATIONS AND
>PHOTOGRAPHS.
>
>Thursday, June 15
>
>8:00-10:00 a.m. SCANNING LAB II (track two): ILLUSTRATIONS AND
>PHOTOGRAPHS.
>
>10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. IMAGE INDEXING AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT. Issues
>associated with providing access to digital files by such
>means as document control structures, WAIS indexing, and links to
>on-line bibliographic databases; evaluation of relational, flat-
>file, and object-oriented databases, using fixed-field and
>controlled vocabulary structures; discussion of database
>security, privacy, integrity, and confidentiality.
>
>12:00-1:30 p.m. OPTIONAL LAB. Participants will be able to scan
>their own documents.
>
>1:30-2:30 p.m. CONVERTING BITMAPPED IMAGES INTO TEXT-READABLE FILES. Key
>concepts and capabilities of OCR technology; pre- and post-processing issues
>affecting OCR accuracy; integration of
>OCR-generated text into image databases.
>
>2:45-4:00 p.m. VENDOR SELECTION AND RFP DEVELOPMENT. Discussion of
>economic viability of outsourcing conversion of library
>materials to imaging service bureaus; negotiation strategies to
>attain a product that meets preservation and access requirements;
>review of sample RFPs developed by AIIM and Cornell; means by
>which to judge a vendor's viability and product.
>
>4:00-6:00 p.m. SCANNING LAB III (track one): INDEXING, OCR, AND
>DATABASE MANAGEMENT.
>
>Friday, June 16
>
>8:00-10:00 a.m. SCANNING LAB III (track two): INDEXING, OCR, AND
>DATABASE MANAGEMENT.
>
>10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. HYBRID APPROACHES. Review of Yale
>University's Project Open Book (to create digital images from
>microfilm), and Cornell's Digital-to-COM Project (to produce
>raster computer output microfilm from digital images); comparison
>of COM to conventional microfilm; issues associated with
>preparing microfilm for future digital conversion.
>
>
>12:00-1:30 p.m. OPTIONAL LAB. Participants will be able to OCR
>and index their own documents.
>
>1:30-3:00 p.m. DEMONSTRATIONS OF CORNELL PROJECTS. Reports and
>presentations of ongoing imaging projects for text and visual
>materials, such as Making of America, Utopia, and the Museum
>Educational Site Licensing Project.
>
>3:15-5:00 p.m. CONCLUDING SESSION: ENDURING ACCESS, SOURCES OF
>INFORMATION, WRAP UP, AND EVALUATION. Institutional and
>technical considerations associated with maintaining enduring
>access to digital libraries; review of additional sources of
>information (to be distributed as a supplement to the training
>notebook); discussion of questions and issues arising from
>various workshop components; overall evaluation of workshop.
>
>
>DETAILS:
>
>Dates June 12-16, 1995
> August 14-18, 1995
> October 9-13, 1995
> March 18-22, 1996
>
>Location Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
>
>Accommodations Student housing may be available. Please
> indicate if you are interested in receiving
> information on this option.
>
>Cost $1,500* Travel and lodging not included.
>
>
>* Cornell is seeking additional support to reduce the
>registration fee to $1,200. Positions will be filled on a first-
>come, first-serve basis, with the understanding that if this
>support is not obtained, individuals will not be obligated to
>attend and may cancel their reservations. The final registration
>fee will be set in four to six weeks.
>
>APPLICATION:
>
>Enrollment for each workshop is limited to 16 participants. Send
>a letter with the following information:
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>Name:
>
>Institution and current position:
>
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>Postal and e-mail addresses:
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>
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>Telephone and fax numbers:
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>Dates of workshop you are interested in attending, including
> second and third preferences:
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>Experience with imaging projects:
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>REPLY TO:
>
>Digital Training Workshop
>Department of Preservation and Conservation
>Cornell University Library
>214 John M. Olin Library
>Ithaca, NY 14853-5301
>
>If submitting an application by e-mail, please reply directly to
mailto:>mailto:preserve@cornell.edu, not the listserv.
>
>APPLICATION DEADLINES
>
>APRIL 15, 1995 for the June 1995 workshop
>JUNE 15, 1995 for the August 1995 workshop
>AUGUST 15, 1995 for the October 1995 workshop
>JANUARY 15, 1996 for the March 1996 workshop
>
>An early expression of interest in any of the workshop dates will
>be the best guarantee of acceptance. Priority will also be given
>to applicants contemplating or initiating digital projects with a
>preservation focus.
>
>Notifications of acceptance will be made two weeks after the
>application deadlines. Registration fee must be paid in full one
>month prior to the workshop.
>
>
>FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:
>
>Anne R. Kenney or Stephen Chapman
>Department of Preservation and Conservation
>Cornell University Library
>214 John M. Olin Library
>Ithaca, NY 14853-5301
>Phone: 607/255-9440
>Fax: 607/255-9346
>Internet: mailto:ark3@cornell.edu
> mailto:sc55@cornell.edu
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