The National Archives will host a two-day preservation conference entitled Managing the Intangible: Creating, Storing and Retrieving Digital Surrogates of Historical Materials, on Monday, April 30, and Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
The first conference day will be devoted to formal presentations including:
* Project Planning – Criteria for Funding Digital Programs and Infrastructure to Support Digital Preservation Programs,
* Digitizing Fundamentals – Creation, Purpose and Quality Assessment of the Digital Surrogate, and
* Digital Preservation Programs and Organizational Change.
A reception will follow the first day’s presentations, and an exhibit by vendors who provide products and services to the historic preservation field will be available on both days.
The second conference day will allow media specialists to present case studies of digital reformatting projects followed by a moderated discussion with audience participation to exchange information specific to areas of expertise. The two sessions will be:
* Static media (still photography, textual and cartographic records and microfilm) and
* Dynamic media (audio, video and motion pictures).
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