Join an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss the digitization, preservation, and access of 
2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, and audio-visual materials, including documents, photographs, books, paintings, videos, and born digital works.

Website: www.imaging.org/archiving

Call for papers available HERE

Program Topics

Digitization

• New developments in digitization technologies and workflows
• Advanced imaging techniques and image processing, e.g., multispectral imaging, 3D imaging
• Large scale/mass digitization and workflow management systems
• Quality assurance and control 
of digitization workflow, e.g., targets, software, automation, integration

Preservation / Archiving

• Formats, specifications, 
and systems
• Management of metadata
• Standards and guidelines
• Archival models and workflows

Access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials

• Dissemination and use of digitized 
materials, e.g., rights management, crowdsourcing, data mining, data visualizations
• Formats for preservation and access
• Deep learning algorithms to improve search results; AI, machine learning, etc.
• Open access and open data strategies
• Integration of linked open [usable] data (LOD/LOUD)/Open source solutions/APIs (automated programming interface, e.g., IIIFs)

Management and Partnerships

• Policies, strategies, plans, and risk management; repository assessment
• Business and cost models
• Collaborations and partnership best practices/lessons learned/case studies