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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!

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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. 

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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 DemonstrationDoug Peterson

2:30-3:05 – Practical AI: Case Studies in Using Artificial Intelligence to Save Time, Make Discoveries, and Surface Interesting Topics for Human InvestigationDoug 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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DT Knowledge Resources

We aren’t just a commercial entity, we pride ourselves on leading the Cultural Heritage community with resources to learn effective and viable approaches to preserve our history. This is why we have developed free resources for you to learn about the latest in the industry.

Film Scanning Knowledge Center
Digitizing transmissive materials at the highest possible quality can be an intimidating task, so we built this resource to guide you through it. Whether you’re aiming to meet image quality standards like FADGI or just looking to get the most detail out of your personal collection, you’re in the right place. Dive in for hardware and software solutions, project planning tips, handling considerations, video resources, and much more! Click here to browse our resource center.
DT Coding Series
Cultural Heritage digitization often requires special attention to detail and customization to meet the needs of institutions and organizations. Our exclusive DT Coding Series gives you the opportunity to learn how to customize your process and improve workflows. Programming can vastly improve the efficiency of the digitization and preservation experience. We have provided our knowledge here from our DT Coding Series to support the greater Cultural Heritage community. Click here to get started.
Recorded Live Events
Explore our YouTube channel for knowledge resources on medium format photography and digital imaging technology. Discover more about the best digital imaging systems in the world, learn why medium format makes all the difference, all from the industry’s leading experts. Click here for more.

Upcoming Events & Trainings

We have a variety of trainings available to suit your needs for digitization. Whether you are looking to improve your post-processing skills in Capture One, learn invaluable techniques for film scanning, or seeking certification as a digitization operator.

Capture One Basics
Digital Transitions offers a variety of courses and classes that cover everything from Advanced Image Adjustment and Advanced Workflow, to operator training in Cultural Heritage settings. As part of this educational series, we’ve created an online, video-based Capture One Basics program that not only covers basic functions and tools, but also touches on software installation, and basic digital camera terminology. Click here to get started.
DT Digitization Certification Program
One of our core missions at DT Heritage is to be a knowledge resource for the Cultural Heritage digitization community; helping to foster the spread of information and best practices in an industry that too often relies on individuals figuring out techniques and workflows on their own. As part of that ongoing initiative, earlier this year we launched our DT Digitization Certification Training Program to help educate the Cultural Heritage community on the equipmentsoftwareworkflows, and best practices associated with modern digitization. Click here to learn more.
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