SPRING 2022 ROUNDTABLE
Stay tuned for our Fall 2022 Roundtable announcement!
A Global Gathering for Cultural Heritage Professionals
Our Cultural Heritage Roundtables began as small, one-off gatherings between Digital Transitions and our clients, as a formal way for us to gather the community’s collective feedback on their experience with our solutions and how we could work to improve them.
Since its inception, the event has grown from a single day at our office to two annual conferences online and in key regions across the United States. Attendees come from a variety of countries, disciplines, and institutions to see the latest digitization technology, learn best practices from experts, discuss workflow tips, and network with other cultural heritage professionals. Whether you work at a gallery, library, archive, museum, corporation, or in media, entertainment, or sports, this event is for you!
We invite you to join us in-person for an event celebrating the latest advancements in digitization technology.
The event will be held online and in person in Los Angeles on May 17th. There will be morning and afternoon sessions including dedicated time to network. We hope you join us to discuss advancements and practices in our digitization community; we are excited to see you there!
Why Attend?
Learn from industry-leading institutions and network with Cultural Heritage professionals.
INSPIRING PROJECTS
NETWORKING
NEW TECHNOLOGY
EVENT DETAILS
DATE AND TIME: May 17, 2022 9 AM to 5 PM PST, with Happy Hour to follow
LOCATION: Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel (11461 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049) or Online
Breakfast and lunch will be provided! A Happy Hour will follow the event onsite. We hope you can join us for this portion of the event as well!
We are offering a tour of the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on May 18th from 9 AM – 3 PM PT. We have very limited spaces, upon your registration for the Roundtable, you can express interest in the tour and then be forwarded a sign up. We hope you can join us for this special opportunity.
Speakers
Learn more about our speakers below. Visit our presentation program to read about their discussion topics.Registrants will receive a detailed timeline the week of the event. For scheduling questions please email [email protected]
Victoria Martens began her career at the American Museum of Natural History, digitizing the collection in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology through funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA. She is currently the Head of Photography for the New York offices of Bonhams, a global auction house that dates back to 1793. Victoria strives to innovate and preserve her ongoing work, between the delicate balance of commercial requirements and demands for image authenticity.
Julieanna L. Richardson, Founder and President of The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American digital video oral history archive with testimonies of thousands of African American leaders recorded over a 21 year period in 413 cities and towns. The Library of Congress serves as the permanent repository for this unprecedented collection.
Hannah Storch is Client Success Manager with DT Heritage, the service arm of Digital Transitions, a leading global provider of sophisticated digitization solutions. She specializes in cultural heritage digitization and has worked in collections and development at a variety of museums and archives, including the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of African Art. Besides image production, image processing, and staff supervision, Hannah also creates digitization workflows and programs that optimize productivity while emphasizing preservation.
Niki Nakagawa (she/her) is a Photographer for the J. Paul Getty Trust at the Getty Villa Imaging Studios. She started at the Getty Villa in 2015 as part of the Getty’s Online Scholarly Catalog Initiative (OSCI) and the Villa Reinstallation. Her current career at the Getty Villa has launched her into the cultural heritage world, where she brings experience of high-end commercial photography, digital imaging, and technical lighting skills.
Fine art photographer Tahnee Louise Cracchiola (she/her) is the Imaging Manager for the Getty Villa Imaging Studios under the J. Paul Getty Trust. She joined the Getty in 2006 to photograph the Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th-century sculpture for publication and other printed works in collaboration with museums around the world. At the Getty, she is a leader in establishing best practices and quality standards for conservation, promotional, and publication photography.
Doug Peterson is Co-Owner and Head of R+D and Product Management at Digital Transitions. He is the lead author of a series of technical guidelines and recommendations for cultural heritage digitization, including the Phase One Color Reproduction Guide, Imaging for the Future: Digitization Program Planning, and the DT Digitization Guides for Reflective and Transmissive Workflows. He oversees the DT Digitization Certification training series, and has presented multiple Short Courses at the IS&T Archiving imaging conference.
2022 Spring Roundtable Agenda
Session 1:
9:00-10:30 AM PT – Registration and Breakfast
10:30-10:45 – Welcome Remarks
10:45-11:20 – Photographing Cultural Heritage Objects and Fine Art: Non-Profit to Commercial – Victoria Martens
11:20-11:55 – The Fine Art of Documentation: Ancient Gem Photography Reimagined – Niki Nakagawa & Tahnee Cracchiola
11:55-1:55 Lunch and Networking Session
Session 2:
1:55-2:30 – MSI Demonstration – Doug Peterson
2:30-3:05 – Practical AI: Case Studies in Using Artificial Intelligence to Save Time, Make Discoveries, and Surface Interesting Topics for Human Investigation – Doug Peterson
3:05-4:05 – Disappearing Acts: Saving 20th Century African American Archives… a Moral and Cultural Imperative – Julieanna Richardson & Hannah Storch
4:05-4:20 – Closing Remarks
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