School for Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections
Sponsored by the Northeast Document Conservation Center
Chicago, June 2-4, 2004
Summary by Chris Petersen
Tuesday, June 2
Session 1 Keynote Address: Doing Things Well, Bernard Reilly, Center for Research Libraries
Session 2 The Digital Landscape: What You Really Need to Know, Paul Conway, Duke University
Session 3 Managing a Digital Project: A How-To Guide, Liz Bishoff, OCLC
Session 4 Selection in the Digital Age, Janet Gertz, Columbia University
Session 5 Digital Technology: Legal Issues, Mary Minow, LibraryLaw.com
Session 6 Applying Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s Perspective, Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
Wednesday, June 3
Session 7 Test-Driving the Technology, Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration
Session 8 Text Digitization: Quality and Costs, Steve Chapman, Harvard University
Session 9 Image Digitization: Quality and Costs, Franziska Frey, Rochester Institute of Technology
Session 10 Moving Beyond Capture: The IT Perspective, Roy Tennant, California Digital Library
Session 11 The Essentials of Delivery Systems, Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
Poster Session Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
Thursday, June 4
Session 12 Digital Preservation, Dale Flecker, Harvard University
Session 13 Outsourcing and Vender Relations, Robin Dale, Research Libraries Group
Session 14 Using Descriptive Metadata to Enhance End-User Access, Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute
Session 15 Business Models for Digital Projects/Programs, Nancy Allen, University of Denver
Session 16 Pushing the Envelope: Preservation of Multi-Media Materials, Howard Besser, New York University