Archiving 2025
Cultural Heritage Imaging, Preservation, and Access
Science • Sustainability • Security
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Since 2004, Archiving has served as a pivotal forum, uniting a global network of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities and commercial enterprises. The conference is dedicated to exploring state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies in the imaging, digitization, preservation, and access of 2D, 3D, audiovisual materials, and born-digital assets.
The interdisciplinary nature of Archiving fosters a rich environment for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. Beyond showcasing the latest research in imaging, digitization, and their related fields, the conference delves into emerging technologies, strategic approaches, and policy frameworks. Successful case studies are highlighted as benchmarks, while diverse platforms and visualization methods are explored to deepen connections with collections.
Archiving 2025 will take place in Granada, Spain, June 24-27.
2025 KEY THEMES
- Science: Exploring cutting-edge research and developments across all aspects of digitization, imaging, preservation, archiving, access, and presentation.
- Sustainability: Examining how digitization, imaging, preservation, archiving, access, and presentation can impact and promote a sustainable stewardship of collections in archives, libraries, and museums.
- Security: Addressing the protection of cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change, conflict, cyber attacks, and other risks, with a focus on modern technologies, innovative prototypes, digital repositories, content authenticity, virtual museums, and digital libraries.
2025 PROGRAM TOPICS
We invite authors to submit abstracts for peer review on the following topics related to key themes, but not limited to:
Digitization / Imaging
- New developments in digitization technologies and workflows
- Advanced imaging techniques and image processing, such as multispectral, computational (HDR, RTI), spatial, and 3D imaging
- Large-scale and mass digitization, including workflow management systems
- Quality assurance and control in digitization processes
Preservation / Archiving
- Management of metadata, formats, specifications, and systems
- Models and workflows for archival preservation
- Techniques for large-scale collection analysis and processing
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Access / Presentation
- Dissemination and use of digitized materials, including rights management, crowdsourcing, data mining, data visualization
- Applications of deep learning, AI, and machine learning
- Data visualization and automated programming interfaces
- Strategies for open access, open science, open data, and interoperability
- Integration of linked open data and source solutions
Management / Policy
- Management policies, strategic planning, and risk management
- Work models: adaptation and opportunities
- Demonstrating, measuring, analyzing impact
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All accepted papers will be published as Open Access, providing broad visibility to your work. Prepare your work now; submission site will open by mid-October.
Papers from past Archiving conferences are published on the IS&T Digital Library/Archiving.
Learn More: Archiving Webinars
View the recordings of webinars recorded in 2020 and 2021 that introduce the conference and its themes. These informative presentations serve as an introduction to the topics and understanding the contents and importance of the papers presented at this meeting.
- Digitization, Preservation, and Access: The Three Pillars of Cultural Heritage Archiving, Jeanine Nault, Smithsonian Institution View Recording
- Digitizing for Cultural Heritage: Imaging, Standards, and Quality, Peter Burns, Burns Digital Imaging View Recording
- Designing Preservation, Responding to Collection and User Community Needs, David Walls, US Government Publishing Office View Recording
- Access: Mind the Gap, Ariela Netiv, Heritage Leiden View Recording
Download Ariela Netiv's Mind the Gap Resource List
- Imaging Choices: Practice, Settings, and Formats, Peter Burns, Burns Digital Imaging View Recording
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Workflows for Digitized and Born-Digital Materials, Kira Sobers and Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives View Recording
- Covering the Gamut of Spectral Imaging: Intro to In-depth, Fenella France, Library of Congress, and David R. Wyble, Avian Rochester LLC View Recording
- OCR and Text Recognition: Workflows, Trends, and New Applications, Jack Maness, University of Denver; Jamie Rogers, Florida International University; and Luis J. Villanueva, Smithsonian Institution View Recording