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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Fine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: May 15, 2007 8:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mass Digitization
> 
> 
> Definitely would be a good seminar or convention. Suggestion 
> -- check out how digital photography 
> was introduced to the newspaper business. Nikon, for 
> instance, is very good at training "schools" 
> for both pro and consumer users. My boss and I went to the 
> advanced digital photography "school" 
> session and learned a variety of ways to handle digital 
> imagery better and faster. While Nikon likes 
> to try and sell you things, we didn't feel the need to get 
> any new software or equipment but learned 
> all sorts of Photoshop tricks and were fortified with just 
> some basic knowledge about how digital 
> imagery works and thus how and why certain techniques produce 
> certain results. I'm sure there were 
> much more in-depth kinds of sessions for photojournalists and 
> photo editors.
> 
> What we're talking about here is really very akin to this. 
> We're moving audio and moving pictures 
> from obsolete analog media to digital and we need to address 
> new storage and quality issues, much 
> like the entire print media business needed to accept and 
> address digital imagery.
> 
> Bottom line point is, ARSC probably doesn't need to invent 
> the wheel here, just splice in already 
> established ideas and topics and customize to audio. Bits is 
> bits and all this digital capture and 
> storage stuff is similar.
> 
> -- Tom Fine
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Poretti" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mass Digitization
> 
> 
> > There would certainly be numerous technology possibilities here - 
> > automation, meta-data, work-flow, storage systems, etc...
> >
> > Something for everyone!
> >
> > Rob Poretti
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