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ALCTS e-Forum: Standards for Digital Images

November 17-18, 2015

Moderated by Ann Caldwell and Felicity Dykas

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

Pacific: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mountain: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Central: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Eastern: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Determining and applying local standards for digital images involves juggling recommended best practices and local needs, systems, equipment, staffing, and available server space. Best practices can be based on a continuum from a) make the best possible high quality copy now and save it forever to b) more product and less process (i.e., make an access copy that meets needs now). Local practices may vary depending on the type of material, too. Join colleagues in discussing standards you use or would like to use, the local constraints that influence your determination of local standards, changes you’ve made to local practices over time, and, in real life, what a best practice for digital images looks like.

Selected topics will include:

Discussion of standards used for born-digital and locally digitized images in libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
Discussion of how local constraints, systems, and equipment impact the application of standards.
Discussion of the decision making processes used in determining local standards for access and preservation copies of digital resources.
Discussion of digital preservation archives.

Moderators

Ann Caldwell is Head of Digital Production Services in the Brown University Library. The unit is responsible for digitization and photography for the library as well as non-MARC metadata for the Fedora-based repository. In addition it assists with data curation, digital preservation and library exhibits. The unit also publishes a blog, Curio, describing its many activities.

Felicity Dykas is the Head of Digital Services at the University of Missouri—Columbia. Her unit is responsible for digitization, content acquisition for the digital library and institutional repository, digitization, cataloging of repository material, and maintenance and development of the digital library (Islandora) and institutional repository (Dspace) platforms.

What Is an e-Forum?

An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

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How to Register

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*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*