ViDe 2005: 7th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Conference

[Dan Kniesner]

Please mark your calendars for ViDe 2005, the 7th Annual SURA/ViDe
Digital Video Conference  (http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2005/ ).

Over 200 educators, librarians, archivists, technologists and
policymakers will gather in Atlanta, Georgia, March 28-31, 2005 to
discuss a broad range of issues relating to the development and
deployment of video-over-IP in higher education. The SURA/ViDe
Conference is one of the largest, most comprehensive and most lively
annual events in the field. Presentations will cover the development and
deployment of digital collections and their use in settings as diverse
as public broadcasting, distance education, K-12 classrooms and
telemedicine. Also included will be presentations on emerging and
evolving technologies, such as SIP, MPEG4, Multicast and HDTV.

As part of the conference, there will be two all-day workshops on March
31: one will focus on the delivery of high-quality, bandwidth-intensive
video-over-IP; the second focuses on the development of metadata for
digital video collections. There will also be a training session, led by
Internet2, for I2 Commons Site Coordinators. There is a separate
registration fee for all workshops and training, and space is limited.

The metadata workshop will include a review of basic metadata concepts;
an overview of digital rights management; an introduction to METS
(Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard); and a comparison of the
new multimedia metadata standard MPEG-7, PB-Core (a public broadcasting
community enhancement of Dublin Core), and the native data element set
of the Moving Image Collections Project, a joint project of the
Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Library of Congress.

It's not too late for you to get involved! If you would like to propose
a presentation, or if you are a vendor who is interested in exhibition
space, please go to the Conference website for more information.

About ViDe: http://www.vide.net/ 

About SURA: http://www.sura.org/   

Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health & Science University Library
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland Oregon 97239
kniesner at ohsu.edu 
503-494-3216
fax 503-494-3227