Hi just for everyone's information I'm forwarding this call for papers, ideas, and representatives on image standards at an upcoming OCLC/CNI conference.
Is anyone from MCN going? Is MCN sending a board member or other representative of the museum community? Maybe other related organizations, like the Getty AHIP are going...anyway, just FYI. Richard Rinehart | University Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive Systems Manager & Education | University of California at Berkeley Technology Specialist | 2625 Durant, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250 rineh...@uclink2.berkeley.edu | http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/ ************* >X-UIDL: d0f389fc65befa95265280ecec55d22b >Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:49:59 -0900 >Reply-To: IMAGELIB <image...@listserv.arizona.edu> >Sender: IMAGELIB <image...@listserv.arizona.edu> >From: Stuart Glogoff <sglog...@bird.library.arizona.edu> >Subject: call for statements of interest in CNI/OCLC workshop >To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB > <image...@listserv.arizona.edu> > >CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST AND EXPERIENCE >============================================== > >Title: Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images and Imagebases > >General Description >------------------- > >The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and OCLC are organizing an >invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio on September 24 and 25 to promote >convergence among alternative approaches to describing images and imagebases >in networked environments. This workshop will build upon the outcomes of a >workshop that OCLC organized last fall to address the general issue of >metadata in networked environments. It will address the metadata >requirements of networked images and imagebases by refining and extending the >"Dublin core" of metadata elements that resulted from that previous >workshop. > >Digital images ranging from paintings and buildings to CAT scans and x-rays >to planetary landscapes and astronomical objects are now available in great >numbers on the Internet, and more such images are becoming available every >day. Widely accepted and used standards for describing these images and >their associated imagebases are urgently needed to facilitate the planning of >image creation and conversion projects and to enable the discovery of >existing images that can be used in research, teaching, and learning >activities. This workshop will bring together a critical mass of experts who >are working in this area so that they can share information on their >respective efforts and clear the ground on which image and imagebase metadata >standards will be built. > >The workshop will focus on still images, such as photographs, slides, and >graphics. It will not deal with moving images, such as films, videos, and >simulations, nor will it deal with images of textual objects, such as page >facsimiles. It will, however, capture the requirements of the wide range of >disciplines (e.g. art, architecture, engineering, medicine, and the life, >physical, and social sciences) that create and use images and imagebases, and >it will identify the requirements that are common to all disciplines versus >those that are unique to individual disciplines. > >Process >------- > >If you are interested in participating in this workshop then please contact >the person identified below on or before June 15, 1996 (a) to declare your >interest in participating, (b) to describe your experience to-date with >creating or using digital images or imagebases in networked environments, >and, (c) to suggest key issues or topics that should be addressed by the >workshop, together with your views on those issues and topics. > >If you know of a project or a person that you believe should be represented >at or invited to this workshop then please (a) forward this call for >statements of interest and experience as soon as possible to a representative >of the project or to the person you have in mind, or (b) contact the person >identified below as soon as possible with the title of the project or the >name of the person you have in mind together with a brief description of the >reason why you think a representative of that project or that person should >participate. > >CNI and OCLC are particularly interested in receiving statements from and >nominations of faculty members, researchers, and other "content" originators >and users so that the workshop might benefit from their participation as well >as that of archivists, librarians, information technologists, and other >professional developers and managers of information infrastructures, >resources, and services. > >There will be no registration fee for this workshop. CNI and OCLC will take >responsibility for all staff, speaker, materials, facility, and food expenses >arising from this workshop. The workshop participants will be responsible >for their individual travel and housing expenses. > >Contact Information >------------------- > >Please direct questions, statements of interest and experience, and >nominations to: > > Paul Evan Peters > Executive Director > Coalition for Networked Information > 21 Dupont Circle > Washington, DC 20036 > 202-296-5098 > 202-872-0884 fax > p...@cni.org > http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html > >Additional Information >---------------------- > >CNI, a joint project of the Association for Research Libraries, CAUSE, and >Educom, was founded in March, 1990 to promote the creation of and access to >information resources in networked environments in order to enrich >scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity. > >OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a non-profit computer library >service and research organization whose computer network and services link >more that 22,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories. Additional >information about OCLC and its services can be found at http://www.oclc.org. > >Currently 212 organizations and institutions, including OCLC, belong to the >CNI Task Force, a group that makes special contributions to the Coalition's >projects and activities. Included in the Task Force membership are higher >education institutions, publishers, network service providers, computer >hardware and system companies, library networks and organizations, and public >and state libraries. > >Periodically CNI issues a call for statements of interest and experience as a >vehicle for announcing initiatives in a manner that promotes the widest and >fairest possible identification of institutions, organizations, and >individuals willing and able to contribute to those initiatives. Each call >provides a brief description of the initiative in question, and some calls >include supporting documents. > >Individuals do not have to be affiliated with or employed by a member of the >CNI Task Force, or of ARL, CAUSE, or Educom, to respond to a call for >statements of interest and experience. > >Statements of interest and experience are reviewed by CNI staff with the >assistance of the leaders of relevant CNI Working Groups and the guidance of >members of the CNI Steering Committee. Other parties are involved as needed. >Additional information is sometimes requested during this review process. > >Reviews of statements of interest and experience are carried out in as >expeditious and as flexible a fashion as possible, taking care to balance the >benefits of a wide and fair search for individuals able and willing to >contribute to particular initiatives with the benefits of focused and timely >action on those initiatives. > >Upon selection of the individuals to participate in a given initiative, CNI >staff notify all those who submitted a response to the call of their status. > >Additional information about CNI and its program can be obtained from the >person identified above and from the following Internet servers: > > ftp://ftp.cni.org/ > gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/ > http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html > >Interested parties are encouraged to stay in touch with CNI and its program >by subscribing to its Internet news distribution service by sending the >following, single-line message to listp...@cni.org: > > subscribe cni-announce <your name, first name first> . > >============ >May 23, 1996 > >
