Event: International Workshop on Digital Preservation of Heritage: Research Issues in Archiving and Retrieval, Oct. 29 - 31, 2007

A three-day workshop on digital preservation will be held in Kolkata, India on Oct. 29 - 31, 2007. Speakers are coming from around the world for this event. They expect 100 participants.

The themes to be discussed include:

• Acquisition of heritage materials
  
• Digitization and public access
  
• Storage issues including standardization and compression
  
• Metadata standards: tagging and extraction
  
• Interface format for description of manuscripts
  
• Heritage archival: right managements and other issues
  
• Cross lingual information retrieval

For more information, visit the web site.

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