PUBLIC INFORMATION REPORT
Submitted by David Bower, Region 3 Public Information Officer
d.bower@ieee.org
August 28, 2006

Participation in the continuing Region 3 electronic Communication
Committee meetings is generating productive ideas for supporting the
various R3 public information initiatives. The need to develop a plan to
archive R3 pictures, with appropriate captions, has been discussed in
the recent meeting. I'm working with Charles Lord, and others, regarding
this matter. Because of the large number of pictures, it's important to
develop a process to catalog the pictures along with supporting captions
and a brief narrative for each picture. Further, a suitable storage size
for the digital pictures needs to be defined and approved by R3.
Additionally, this information needs to be backed up to protect the
material. In recent years, many of the pictures have been captured
digitally, but older material is still on film and needs to be converted
to digital. It is anticipated that this archival project will be an
ongoing process in R3 to adequately document (by captioned pictures) the
history of our region.

In addition, I'm working with the East Tennessee Section to assist in
providing material for their web page.