aims

To explore the best practice in curation of a digital image collection - developing practical knowledge of digital preservation and digital rights management.

programme to include:

• Image Management - storing and finding your images
• Metadata - Standards and practical applications
• Copyright & IPR Basics - Looking at the legal side of things
• Review of image curation - looking after your images
• Digital Preservation Strategy - Thinking about the long term safety of your images
• Image archiving - Methods and infrastructure
• Digital Rights Management - What do you protect and why
• Image Protection - Watermarking and other methods

audience

Anyone who uses digital images within their day-to-day work within the heritage sector.

Especially project managers and collection managers who wish to understand how to curate and protect their digital assets.

It does not presume any prior knowledge of digital imaging, but a sound understanding of the basics of IT would be useful.