Digital Libraries and Digital Imaging: The Big Picture

[Debra Shapiro]

Posted to many lists, please excuse duplication.

Digital Libraries and Digital Imaging: The Big Picture

A day long pre-conference workshop presented by the LITA Technical
Issues of Digital Data Interest Group

Friday, July 7, 2000, 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.
Chicago Hilton & Towers, Room TBA

Libraries and museums are creating collections of digital images at a
rapid pace, but how easy is it for users to find and use this
material? This workshop offers an opportunity for thoughtful
discussion on the meaning and cultural impact of digital libraries.
How do researchers like using digital images, and how is this
affecting research? Are digital collections cataloged in such a way
that they are integrated with other materials on related topics
within institutions? How well are the creating institutions
maintaining their digital image collections? Will the digital data
still be useable in 10 years time? A series of speakers, including
library science eductors that are digital library experts, digitizing
project managers, and a vendor representative,  will address these
issues and more.

To register online, start at the preconference Web site:
http://www.lita.org/ac2000/preconf.html

Speakers & topics:

Howard Besser, Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education and
Information Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley's
School of Information Management & Systems -- metadata for digital
libraries and making digital libraries work

Cindy Miller, Director of Product Strategy,  Endeavor Information
Systems Inc.  -- creating, managing, and accessing digital
collections in conjunction with the traditional library catalog.
Miller will be discussing the practical application of metadata
standards to building digital collections. She will talk about
Endeavor's product, ENCompass, but promises it will not be a sales
pitch! Rather, the talk will focus on lessons learned throughout this
product's development and how Endeavor applied that research to
technical design and actual building of the product.

Bernard Reilly, Director of Research & Access, Chicago Historical
Society -- The opportunity that the World Wide Web presents for
delivery of museum and special collections materials in digital form
to a global audience presents a number of professional and
administrative challenges. These challenges arise from the costs of
digital technology, constraints on intellectual property, the
mercurial nature of digital media, and so forth. As museums and
libraries shift more of their activities to the digital environment,
there are new skill sets that will be demanded of staff, and new
resources that will have to be brought to bear on those activities.

Beth Sandore, Coordinator for Imaging Projects & Associate Professor
of Library Administration at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign -- user surveys, user satisfaction with digital
images, designing interfaces with user input

Christie Stephenson, Assistant Head, University of Michigan Digital
Library Production Unit and/or John Weise, Coordinator of Imaging
Services -- When digitizing is not a special project anymore, but
part of library service. Michigan's federating model for delivering
images from diverse collections

Schedule:

Note that all times are somewhat approximate, allowing speakers to
run over 5 - 10 minutes into breaks & lunch

8:00 a.m. check in and registration

8:30 to 9:00 a.m. introductions & a short exercise in which we will
ask everyone to write down the most important question they hope to
have answered by the end of the day (Debra Shapiro)

9:00 to 9:45 a.m. Bernard Reilly, Chicago Historical Society, digital
imaging and policy issues for staff

9:50 to 10:35 a.m.  John Weise & Christie Stephenson, University of
Michigan, Delivering digital images, Michigan's federating model for
delivering images from diverse collections

break to 11:00 a.m.

11:00 to 11:45 a.m. Beth Sandore, University of Illinois, user
surveys, and interface design incorporating user input

11:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. Cindy Miller, Endeavor, creating, managing,
and accessing digital collections in conjunction with the traditional
library catalog, Endeavor's ENCompass system

Lunch until 2:00 p.m., "birds of feather seating"; each table will
include a speaker, and with posted general discussion topics that
each would like to lead.

2:00 to 3:00+ open discussion based on the written questions turned
in & lunch discussions

Break to 3:30 p.m.

3:30 to 5:00 Howard Besser, Making Digital Libraries Work
dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu
Debra Shapiro
Continuing Education Services
UW-Madison SLIS
4282 Helen C. White Hall
Madison WI 53706
608 262 9195
dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu
Debra Shapiro
Continuing Education Services
UW-Madison SLIS
4282 Helen C. White Hall
Madison WI 53706
608 262 9195