An international metadata conference in association with The Bridgeman Art Library, BAPLA and MDA. Hosted by The MILE Project, this conference workshops and showcases the latest cataloguing standards for image archiving, with key speakers including Murtha Baca, Head of Vocabulary Program and Digital Resource Management at The Getty Institute and author of Cataloguing Cultural Objects, and Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Deputy Director of Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The basis of this event is the need to address the key issues associated with the global harmonisation of metadata, and to tackle these via a combination of focussed debate and workshops on key standards such as CDWA Lite, museumdat XML and OAI. We believe it is especially important that with the current increasing interest in metadata we should focus attention on metadata for opening access to the major cultural resources represented by national collections.

See ALL the PrestoSpace technology, from new machines for audio, video, and film digitisation, to the Turnkey System for hosting your own Digital Audiovisual Archive. More than 10 different demonstrations will run simultaneously presenting the PrestoSpace technology including audio, film and video scanning tools, to tools, guidelines, and services to manage the migration process and the storage, to audio, video, and film restoration tools, and eventually the Publication Platform and the Turnkey System to give access to audiovisual contents.

Proper understanding of the significant properties of digital objects is critical to establish best practices and helps answer the fundamental question related to digital preservation: what to preserve? JISC, the British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are organising a joint workshop bring together the relevant projects and report on progress to date.