Digitization’s
New Frontier: Motion and Sound
Paul Eisloeffel, Curator
of Visual and Audio Collections, Nebraska State Historical Society
Wednesday , November 10 - 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Workshop held at the
Hilton Minneapolis
Workshop fee: $125
These days, virtual exhibits,
on-line collections catalogs and other outreach products crave the unique content
that moving images and sound recordings can supply. Technology can provide
the means, but digitizing audio-visuals is a bit more complex than conventional
scanning. This new frontier of audio-visual digitization includes considerations
of hardware and software, capture from analog sources, compression algorithms,
editing, delivery architectures, streaming techniques, and more. With today’s
tools, you too can digitize motion and sound! This introductory workshop
will familiarize you with the diverse universe of AV formats and teach you the
basics you will need to embark on any project to digitize moving images or sound
recordings, either in-house or through a vendor.
Selecting
a Collections Information Management System: Processes that Lead to Successful
Implementation
Amy
Noel, Business Applications Administrator, J.Paul Getty Museum
Wednesday , November 10 - 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Workshop held at the
Hilton Minneapolis
Workshop fee: $125
Considering
a new collections information management system? Whether starting from scratch
or replacing an older system, this workshop is for you. This ½ day
workshop will point participants to existing resources to help assess the various
systems out there, and focus on the processes that lead to successful implementation.
The workshop will draw on real-life experiences with activities designed to help
participants begin their own needs analysis. These processes are all about confluence
and community and apply to both large and small institutions, they are:
*Project
management
*Needs analysis
*Measuring success
*Training and ongoing
development
Digitization
Jim Devine, Head of Multimedia,
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Wednesday, November 10 - All
Day, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Workshop held at the Hilton Minneapolis
Workshop
fee: $250
This workshop will guide participants through the processes
of creating, editing, and managing digital assets. Participants will cover
selection of image-capture equipment for a variety of purposes, planning and executing
digital workflow for projects, metadata, storage, retrieval and end use issues.
This workshop is intended for beginners. No prior knowledge of digitization
on the part of participants will be assumed. Participants wishing to undertake
some preparatory work might usefully familiarize themselves withAdobe Photoshop,
although the basics involved in taking a set of images through the workflow process
will be taught on the workshop.
Examples of good practice will be examined
and discussed, and we will consider hardware and software requirements. At the
end of the workshop participants should have a good grasp of the issues involved
in developing a manageable digital resource, and some practical experience of
how to create and manage digital assets.
Developing
Intellectual Property Policies for Museums
Diane
M. Zorich, Instructor
Saturday, November 13 - 9:00 am–1:00
pm
Workshop held at the Hilton Minneapolis
Workshop fee: $125
Prerequisite: Participants should have a basic knowledge of IP law (especially
copyright) and an understanding of IP issues in museums.
This
workshop will teach participants the basics of planning, developing, and writing
an intellectual property (IP) policy for their museum. Participants will
learn about the elements that make a museum IP policy unique, the process of crafting
and implementing a policy, as well as standard components each museum’s IP
policy needs to cover the changing landscape.
Participants will compare
and contrast existing museum and other IP policies to examine the philosophical
and practical choices individual organizations make when crafting their policies.
The workshop will follow the methodology outlined in the CHIN/NINCH publication,
Developing Intellectual Property Policies: A How-to Guide for Museums.
(Diane M. Zorich, Ottawa: Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2003).
Important Note: This workshop is not a primer on IP law, nor will it
discuss IP statutes or legal rulings.
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