EMG Session 1 Sunday, June 11
Session Chair: Will Real or Walter Henry

9:00-9:30	Sharing the Experience: The Building of a Successful Online/Onsite Exhibit Scott Sayre Ed.D Director of Media & Technology, Interactive Media Group, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Joan Gorman Senior Paintings Conservator, Uppermidwest Conservation Association, Minneapolis, MN
9:30-10:00	Imaging Zapgruder: Film Conservation Issues in the Digital Age Joseph Barabe Director of Scientific Imaging, McCrone Associates Inc., Westmont, IL and Alan Lewis Audiovisual Preservation Expert, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
10:00-10:30	Tremendous Potential Meets Practical Problems: Saving Conservation Documentation Over Time Howard Besser UCLA School of Education & Information
11:00-11:45	Video Art: Origins, Practice, and Preservation Mona Jimenez Materia Media; Visual Artist and Media Arts Consultant, Brooklyn, NY; Affiliated with Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), San Francisco, CA
11:45-12:30	Audio Art: Origins, Practice, and Preservation Steve Vitiello Media Artist & Media Archivist, NYC Formerly with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), NYC

EMG Session 2 Sunday, June 11
Session Chair: Sarah Stauderman

1:30-2:00	Analog to Digital: The Current Debate on the Migration of Video to Digital Jim Lindner President Vidipax, NYC
2:00-2:30	Factors Associated with the Degradation and Failure of Magnetic Tape Jennifer Hodgeman Conservator, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia and Ian Gilmour Manager, Research and Technical Services, ScreenSound Australia, Canberra, Australi
2:30-3:00	Digital Frontiers: Collecting in a Digital Age Therese Mulligan Curator of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
3:30-4:00	Identification of Iris and other Digital Print Formats Martin Jurgens Queen's University, Kingston, ON
4:00-4:30	Recent Findings on the Fading of Digital Prints Henry Wilhelm Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. Grinnell, IW and Mark McCormick-Goodhart Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. Grinnell, IW

EMG Business Meeting
Meeting Chair: Paul Messier

4:30-6:00

Election Results By-laws Changes EMG's Role in the Membership's Data Storage New Business from the Floor

EMG Session 3 Monday, June 12
Session Chair: Paul Messier

9:00-9:30	Case Study: Image Services at the National Library of New Zealand Mark Strange Conservator of Photographs, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
9:30-10:00	Paradigm Shift: The Relationship Between Bandwidth and Conservation of A/V Materials Jim Lindner President, Vidipax, NYC
10:00-10:30	Digital File Migration Harrison Eiteljorg Director, Archaeological Data Archive Project, Center for the Study of Architecture, Bryn Mawr College
11:00-11:30	Documentation Database Design and Implementation Anna Stenstrom Senior Conservator, Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory and Marc Reeves Head Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory, New York Public Library
11:30-12:00	The Importance of Developing Administrative and Structural Metadata Standards for a Common File Storage Architecture Merrilee Proffitt Digital Library Development Specialist, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA
12:00-12:30	Digital Photography vs. Traditional Photography: Where Do We Stand in June 2000? (Including digital camera and printer demonstrations by Mark and Henry) Henry Wilhelm Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. Grinnell, IW and Mark McCormick-Goodhart Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. Grinnell, IW

DIGITAL DISCUSSION GROUP Monday, June 12
Session Chair: Tim Vitale

2:00-5:00

Panel Discussion: Digital Documentation in Conservation Andrew Robb Anne Stenstrom Dan Kushel Harrison Eiteljorg Henry Wilhelm Jim Lindner Mark Reeves Mark Strange Matt Biederman Merrilee Proffitt Paul Messier Scott Sayer Steve Dye and more Conservators to be recruited