ARE YOU PLANNING TO DIGITIZE A COLLECTION and want to learn where to begin? Or are you already knee-deep in a digital project and you need to know: NOW what?!! At Digital Directions, a faculty of national experts will lead you through the steps in creating and managing successful digital projects. *************************************** The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents: DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections MAY 27-29, 2009 Westin San Diego San Diego, California RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW - REGISTER ONLINE AT: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php Registration Deadline: MAY 1 ***************************************** AT THE DIGITAL DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE, YOU WILL: CONNECT WITH OTHER PARTICIPANTS from your state or institution type at a networking luncheon on Day One (included in your registration fee). Share ideas and discuss issues relating to the wide variety of digital collections represented at the conference. LEARN WHAT WORKED - AND WHAT DIDN'T WORK - IN CASE STUDIES of recent local digital projects, including municipal records for the City of San Diego; local history collections at the South Pasadena Public Library and the San Diego Historical Society; a century of botanical exploration in Baja California at the San Diego Natural History Museum. EXPLORE LOW-COST, HIGH-IMPACT PRESERVATION SERVICES that help ensure the long-term accessibility of digital assets for cultural heritage institutions - presented by Keynote Speaker Martin Halbert, Director of the MetaArchive Cooperative. LEARN ABOUT HIGH-END REPLICA DIGITAL PRINTING with a panel of experts, including R. Mac Holbert, co-founder of Nash Editions, one of the premier fine art digital print studios in the country, and Stanley Smith, Head of Imaging Services at the J. Paul Getty Museum. SHARE THE "FUN" IN FUNDRAISING with Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz, as she recounts her experience with the Grateful Dead Archives and its vast and colorful collection that documents the band from 1965 to the present. GIVE A DAM with Stanley Smith, of the J. Paul Getty Museum as he discusses why you need a Digital Asset Management system (DAM). It's one thing to create thousands of digital images, but quite another to find them again when you need them-and when you do find them you need to know what you are looking at! Digital Asset Management (DAM) has achieved buzzword status in the digital community, and the term is often evoked in diverse and creative ways. MEET THE LEADING PROVIDERS of digitization hardware, software, and services at the Digital Directions Vendor Showcase and Spotlight Sessions. (If you are a vendor interested in exhibiting at Digital Directions, contact Julie Martin, jmartin@xxxxxxxxxx) FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCE CONTENT: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php CONFERENCE SESSION ABSTRACTS: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09abs.php#dale2 FACULTY BIOS: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09bio.php#dale ********************************************************* CONFERENCE FEE: $700 (includes a Networking luncheon on Day 1 and the Conference Reception) NEW! Conference fee discounts are available: STUDENTS: $595 with a valid student ID GROUPS of 3 or more from the same institution registering at the same time: $595 each NEDCC IS GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT FROM the National Endowment for the Humanities for the Center's preservation services. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. SAVE A TREE / STAY INFORMED: Join NEDCC's E-Announcement List to receive grant opportunity reminders, conference and workshop information, and other NEDCC news. GO TO: www.nedcc.org and click on the green sign-up button. TO VIEW EXAMPLES: of recent E-Announcements: http://www.nedcc.org/about/newsletter.php www.nedcc.org
