Issues and Answers in Digitization Workshop Series
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Sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and NSF
| About the Series | About the Sponsors | Upcoming Workshops | Previous Workshops |
The objective of the Issues and Answers in Digitization Workshop Series is to educate and raise awareness within the federal library and information community about projects and resources that are available in the area of digitization and to network, share, and build a community of interest around digitization. This series will provide programming relevant to the spectrum of information professionals, from those who are just starting to digitize, to those who have been doing it for a while, all the way to those information professionals who are innovators in the field. |
Upcoming Workshops
| Date/Place | Workshop | Speaker |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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Workshop 9 –Section 508 ~ Purchasing: Accessible Products & Services | Helen Chamberlain, Program Director/Center for IT Accommodation
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| 2011 |
| Workshop 8 - Section 508 Testing and Remediation: Application and Best Practices - Paul Lloyd, USDA, Nichshan Floyd, DHS, Library of Congress. This workshop will focus on how to ensure access barriers to electronic information and technology are eliminated by testing products, software, applications and web content in advance to the Section 508 Standards. Mr. Floyd and Mr. Lloyd will discuss testing methods, manual and automated testing tools, other available resources and share best practices for conducting Section 508 testing and remediating non-compliance. The presenters will share their experience, examples, test scripts and best practices that can easily be used by technical and non-technical staff alike to integrate and complete Section 508 compliance testing in the agency Section 508 plans. Sponsorred by CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and sepcial support from NSF. |
| Workshop 7 - Purchasing Section 508 Accessible Products and Services - Geoff Freed, Stafford II Room 555, National Science Foundation. This workshop will discuss what constitutes multimedia/digital content. Mr. Freed will share practices for creating accessible multimedia/digital content, demonstrate and provide information about resources to help in creation of accessible content, and briefly discuss the digital libraries and e-book projects. Sponsorred by CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and sepcial support from NSF. |
| Workshop 6 - Section 508 Policy, Requirements and Refresh - Bruce Bailey, The Mumford Room, Library of Congress. The American’s with Disabilities Act, Section 508 establishes requirements for electronic and information technology developed, maintained, procured or used by the Federal government. It requires these Federal systems to be available to people with disabilities including employees and members of the public. This presentation will provide an introduction to Section 508, cover the key requirements of Section 508, and update participants on the refresh of Section 508. March 08, 2011. Library of Congress Washington, DC. Sponsorred by CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and special support from NSF. |
| Workshop #5: Moving Image Archiving: Digitizing Present and Future - James Snyder, National Audio Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress. The key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums, including the typical elements in the preservation and digitization of moving images, how to assess their condition, and relevant technologies and best practices. An overview of the conservation research underway at the National Audio Visual Conservation Center was included. January 24, 2011. Library of Congress Washington, DC. Sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, FADGI, and special support from NSF. |
| 2010 |
| Workshop #4: Audio: Digitizing for the Future - Dawn Frank, Carl Fleischhauer, and Jimi Jones from the Libray of Congress covered the key concepts and technology pertaining to recorded sound preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums. December 2, 2010 Library of Congress Washington, DC. Sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, and FADGI. |
| Workshop #3: Before You Digitize - What are the legal issues? - Representatives from the CENDI Copyright Working Group Christopher Cole, Bonnie Klein, and Hope O'Keefe discussed the key issues that need to be considered. October 7, 2010, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, and FADGI. |
| Workshop#2 - Evaluating Digitization and Digitization Equipment - presentation by Michael Stelmach, FADGI/Library of Congress ,August 16, 2010, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, and FADGI. |
Workshop #1 - Digitization Deconstructed: A Survey and Census of Digital Repositories Being Built by Federal Libraries — presentation by Deborah Keller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wednesday, June 9, 2010, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. sponsored by CENDI, FLICC, and FADGI |
