Announcing:
The American Museums Digital Imaging Survey Benchmarking Conference
Direct Digital Image Capture of Cultural Heritage
in American Institutions
September 21 - 22, 2004
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
with an optional 3rd day spent with RIT's Image Permanence Institute
For a preliminary program with registration information, please
visit: http://www.cis.rit.edu/museumSurvey/conference .
Conference topics will include:
- Benchmarking survey of digital imaging within cultural institutions
- Case studies of 6 trailblazing museums and libraries
- Digital imaging in conservation science
- Evaluation of digital camera systems
- Digital cameras: what's happening in the research labs?
- Criteria for camera development
- Metadata
- The future of digital imaging in the cultural heritage arena
There will be project presentations, invited talks and panel
discussions. An evening reception will take place at the
internationally renowned George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography.
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This conference is part of the Direct Digital Image Capture of
Cultural Heritage Project sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
Principle Investigators are Professors Roy Berns of the RIT Munsell
Color Science Laboratory and Franziska Frey of RIT's School of Print
Media.
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For more information, please contact:
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Mitchell Rosen
Munsell Color Science Laboratory
Chester Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
54 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
Phone: 585-475-7691
FAX: 585-475-5988
email: [email protected]
http://www.cis.rit.edu/rosen
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