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Helvetica">DIGITAL PRESERVATION FOR VIDEOTAPE</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Co-sponsored with New York Metropolitan Library Council [METRO]</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Monday, June 6, 2011</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">10:00 AM - 4:00 PM</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">If content on analog videotape is to survive for the long term, the
tapes must be digitized - moved from the unstable magnetic media on which the
content is currently held, into the digital realm where - in theory - they can
be preserved indefinitely and migrated forward as files rather than physical
objects.  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Digitization, however, means more than simply selecting a
destination file format.  It requires a series of decisions that will
determine the long-term viability of files created - and thus of the valuable
video content.  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Workshop topics include:  basic digital file creation,
preservation and access file formats and codecs, software, storage and trusted
digital repositories, workflows for digitization, and technical and
preservation metadata. In addition, participants will examine case studies of
small and large-scale digitization projects in order to understand real-world
applications of principles introduced in the workshop.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Linda Tadic consults and lectures in areas of digital asset
management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and metadata.  She is
Executive Director of the Audiovisual Archive Network [<a href="http://www.archivenetwork.org/"><span style="color:#1436A5">www.archivenetwork.org</span></a>],
and an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation graduate degree program, teaching two core courses:
 Collection Management and Access to Moving Image Collections.  </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Tadic's experience working with and managing audiovisual, digital,
and broadcasting collections includes positions of Manager of the Digital
Library at Home Box Office [HBO] and Director of the Media Archives and Peabody
Awards Collection at University of Georgia. She is past Director of Operations
for ARTstor.</span></p>

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Helvetica">WORKSHOP LOCATION <span style="mso-tab-count:6">                                                                       </span></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">METRO Training Center<span style="mso-tab-count:3">                              </span></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">$100 IMAP and METRO members<span style="mso-tab-count:1">          </span></span></p>

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Helvetica">$150 non-members</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Pre-payment is required with registration. Space is limited.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">REGISTER:  <a href="http://www.metro.org/en/cev/76"><span style="color:#1436A5">http://www.metro.org/en/cev/76</span></a></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">INQUIRIES: <a href="mailto:imap@imappreserve.org"><span style="color:#1436A5">imap@imappreserve.org</span></a></span></p>

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