Digital Imagery for Works of Art

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass.
November 19-20, 2001

Program

Monday, November 19, 2001

10:00 - 11:00 Tours of the Straus Center for Conservation and the Digital Imaging and Photography Department. Advance registration required.

11:30 - 12:00 Registration (Naumburg room, 2nd floor)

Opening session, chair: Ron Spronk

12:00 - 1:00 Working lunch (Naumburg room, 2nd floor)

12:45 - 1:00 Welcome, Introductory talks
-James Cuno , Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard University Art Museums
-Kevin Kiernan, Professor of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Director, Electronic Beowulf Project
-Charles Rhyne, Professor Emeritus, Reed College, Portland OR
-Ron Spronk, Associate Curator for Research, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums

1:00 - 1:30 Presentation: "Cooperative Research and User Needs," Charles Rhyne

1:30 - 2:15 Break out sessions, four groups, open session:
A: Naumburg Room (2nd floor)
B: Seminar room, Straus Center for Conservation (4th floor)
C: Seminar room, Mongan Center (1st floor, on courtyard;
meet with Brooke Evans outside study room door)
D: Busch Reisinger Study Room (3rd floor)

2:15 - 3:00 Break out groups report back and discussion, Naumburg Room

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15- 4:00 Break out sessions, four groups, open session:
A: Naumburg Room (2nd floor)
B: Seminar room, Straus Center for Conservation (4th floor)
C: Seminar room, Mongan Center (1st floor, on courtyard; meet with Brooke Evans outside study room door)
D: Busch Reisinger Study Room (3rd floor)

4:00- 4:45 Break out groups report back and discussion, Naumburg Room

November 19, 2001, Evening program (Adolphus Busch Hall)

6:30 -7:00 Cocktails

7:00 - 9:00 Dinner

8:15 - 8:45 Presentation: "Creating and Managing Digital Images: Individual and Collaborative Efforts at Harvard's Fine Arts Library and Art Museums," Richard Benefield, Associate Director, Harvard University Art Museums

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Session II: Image capture, processing and analysis, chair: Kevin Kiernan

8:30 - 8:45 Coffee

8:45 - 9:15 Presentation: "Digital Imaging and Technical Art History: From Old Masters to Piet Mondrian," Ron Spronk

9:15- 10:00 Break out sessions, four groups:
A: Naumburg Room (2nd floor)
B: Seminar room, Straus Center for Conservation (4th floor)
C: Seminar room, Mongan Center (1st floor, on courtyard)
D: Busch Reisinger Study Room (3rd floor)

10:00 -10:45 Break out groups report back, Naumburg Room

10:45 -11.15 Presentation: "Image searching: What you see is what you get, but not what you want," Michael Lesk, Division Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30- 12:15 Break out sessions, four groups:
A: Naumburg Room (2nd floor)
B: Seminar room, Straus Center for Conservation (4th floor)
C: Seminar room, Mongan Center (1st floor, on courtyard)
D: Busch Reisinger Study Room (3rd floor)

12:15 - 1:00 Break out groups report back and discussion, Naumburg Room

Session III: Image storage and access, and improved user interfaces, chair: Charles Rhyne

1:00 - 2:30 Working lunch (Naumburg room)

2:00 - 2:30 Presentation: "Collaboration and the Need for Useful and Useable Interfaces," Kevin Kiernan

2:30 - 3:15 Break out sessions, four groups:
A: Naumburg Room (2nd floor)
B: Seminar room, Straus Center for Conservation (4th floor)
C: Seminar room, Mongan Center (1st floor, on courtyard)
D: Director's office (2nd floor)

3:15 - 4:00 Break out groups report back and discussion, Naumburg Room

4:00 - 4:30 "Towards a joint grant program for the Digital Imaging of Works of Art for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
National Science Foundation," Donald J. Waters, Program Officer, Scholarly Communications, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Stephen M. Griffin, Program Director, Special Projects Program, National Science Foundation

4:30 -5:00 Discussion and closing comments, Naumburg Room

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

10:00 - 11:00 Tours of the Straus Center for Conservation and the Digital Imaging and Photography Department. Advance registration required.

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