[Sigia-l] Afternoon meeting on organizing image collections, 28th November, London, UK

[Leonard Will]

ISKO UK

"Images in Focus"

Wednesday 28th November (14.00-18.00)
British Dental Association,
64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS

Though largely confined to text-based resources through much of its 
history, Knowledge Organization has always had to cope with visual 
materials. Art galleries, photo libraries, film and video collections 
have hitherto largely 'done their own thing', adapting techniques 
designed for textual resources to visual content. However, it can be 
argued that communication today places as much emphasis upon visual 
materials as upon text and that visual materials need special attention.

The rise first of film and then television, has accelerated the growth 
of visual content beyond imagination. With the more recent digital 
revolution, the emergence of the World Wide Web as a global 'library', 
and with 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the need to 
develop improved approaches to cataloguing and indexing of visual 
content has become even more urgent.

At the next ISKO UK afternoon meeting, the first session examines some 
examples of current best practice: in image collection cataloguing, in 
IPR management for images and in the use of a standards-based approach 
to a national film collection. Speakers will include Sarah Saunders of 
Electric Lane and Gabriele Popp & Stephen McConnachie of the British 
Film Institute.
In the second session, Paul Davies, Junction Media, Tilo Burghardt, BBC 
Natural History Unit/Bristol University, and Sam Davies, BBC R&D will 
describe how computer-based image analysis and crowdsourcing techniques 
are being investigated as a means of by-passing the bottleneck posed by 
the need for human cataloguing and indexing. The afternoon will end with 
a Panel Q&A session followed by wine and nibbles.

You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can 
register until November 23rd via the ISKO UK site at 
http://www.iskouk.org/events/Images_in_focus_Nov2012.htm. The event is 
free to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members 
is just £40. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision 
for payment on arrival. Registration opens at 1.30 and we shall start 
promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who 
may be interested.  We hope to see you there.

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the 
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of 
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science 
and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been 
attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon 
meeting series (see slides and recordings at 
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm) as well as its very successful second 
biennial conference (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) last year.


-- 
Leonard Will
ISKO UK