Robin Dale will provide an overview of the Z39.87 standardization effort and will discuss the emerging applications to support the implementation of this standard, including MIX, Automatic Exposure, and tools development. Oya Rieger will describe the Z39.87 pilot implementation at DCAPS as well as the digital collection registry development plans, which is a part of the CUL's Integrated Framework project.

Robin L. Dale has been a Program Officer at RLG for 8 years. In that position, she leads some of RLG's key programmatic activities related to the long-term management of digital resources and is responsible for managing collaborative activities ranging from international working groups to large, cooperative grants. Her current work focuses on trusted digital repositories, preservation & technical metadata, and digital repository certification. She is a regular speaker on digital preservation initiatives and is active in digital preservation standards and best practice building activities, including the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard and various preservation metadata best practices. Robin currently serves as the co-chair of the task force creating the NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images standard and is the RLG liaison to the OCLC-RLG PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) working group.

Oya Rieger is the Associate Director of the Digital Library and Information Technologies division at the Cornell University Library. She manages the Library's Digital Media Group and coordinates the Digital Consulting and Production Services. Rieger also serves as the Coordinator of Distributed Learning and facilitates the development of new policies and programs in support of technology-mediated instruction. She serves on several national and international task forces, including co-chairing a NISO committee on technical metadata for image collections.

Danielle Mericle is the Digitization Lab Coordinator for the Digital Consulting and Production Services Unit at Cornell University Library. In addition to overseeing the creation of digital content for Cornell Library, she also serves as project manager for many of University's faculty grant projects. Previously, she worked as the primary photographer for New York Public Library's Digital Unit, working on such diverse projects as Making of America II, Utopia, and Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923. Prior to that, she worked as a imaging specialist for University of Georgia's Library Photo Services. Additionally, Danielle Mericle has taught all levels of photography at a number of institutions, including Alfred University and Syracuse University; currently she works as an adjunct professor at Ithaca College. She holds a BFA and an MFA in Photography.