NEDCC's Off the Wall & Online, Las Vegas
Off the Wall and Online:
Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
November 4-5, 2003
The Riviera Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
A Two-day Conference Presented by the
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
As a pre-conference to the Museum Computer Network's 2003 Conference (MCN
2003)**
What is "Off the Wall and Online?" This conference explores digitization
for collections management and education in museums and other cultural
institutions of all sizes. The faculty includes museum and library
professionals, technical experts, educators, and administrators, who will
discuss a broad range of highly relevant topics, including:
Changing Missions: Implications of the Stepping Through a
Project: Conception to
Online Audience
Implementation
The Collaboration Imperative Technology
Choices
Navigating the Metadata Maze Copyright
Considerations in a Digital World
Sustainability
The Preservation Challenge
Leveraging Your Investment in Multi-purposing
Photographs
Digitization for Multiple Uses
Who should attend? This conference is designed for museums and other
cultural institutions that are digitizing or planning to digitize
collections for collections management, education, or both. Museum
administrators, educators, collections management staff, and digital project
managers are the primary audience. Staff from other cultural institutions,
such as libraries, archives, and historical societies will also find much
worthwhile content in the sessions offered.
This conference is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA). NEDCC also receives financial support for its field service
activities from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the
Massachusetts Cultural Council. This conference is co-sponsored by the
Museum Computer Network, the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Balboa
Art Conservation Center.
Registration information is available on NEDCC's Web site at www.nedcc.org
or contact Ginny Hughes at ghughes@nedcc.org
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