Optical Technology Special Interest Group (Australian Public Service applications) (OTSIG)

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
(AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE APPLICATIONS) (OTSIG)
 
The information below was last updated on:
31 August 2019.

SUMMARY INFORMATION ON OTSIG MEETINGS:
 
OTSIG no longer exists. This page, and associated OTSIG pages, are included purely for historical purposes.

DETAILED INFORMATION:
 
The main purpose of the OTSIG was to provide an open forum for
discussions concerning Australian federal agencies' experiences
with optical technologies, as well as providing a continuing
opportunity to invite relevant industry representatives to stage
presentations on a range of relevant topics. All persons with an
interest in the use of optical technologies in the  Australian
Public Service were welcome to attend. There was no attendance fee.
 
When the Optical Technology Working Group (OTWG) of the
Commonwealth Information Exchange Steering Committee (IESC)
which produced "Optical Disk Technologies for Government
Applications" (1993), with the assistance of Jeff Leeuwenburg, 
concluded its work, it recommended the formation of OTSIG.
OTSIGs formation was endorsed by the IESC, but it had no 
formal linkages with it. 
 
OTSIG was an informal SIG of the Canberra Branch 
of the Australian Computer Society, and had a close working
relationship with the ACT Branch of the Records Management
Association of Australia (RMAA).
 
From the beginning of 1997, OTSIG ceased to be an active group.

Notes from some previous OTSIG meetings

• Optical technologies on Common Use Contract (on 2 October 1996);
  
• Distribution of images around LANs (on 7 August 1996);
  
• Electronic forms (on 5 June 1996);
  
• Options for storing images on various media, including magnetic tape (on 3 April 1996);
  
• 'Actual and prospective uses of neural network technology as an aid for forms processing in the Australian Public Service' held as a joint ACNN'96/ACS/OTSIG/RMAA initiative on the afternoon prior to the commencement of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks in April 1996, as a pre-conference workshop;
  
• The availability of various optical technologies under Purchasing Australia (PA) Common Use Contracts (CUC) (on 7 February 1996);
  
• Cost effective approaches to document imaging and electronic documents (on 7 December 1995);
  
• Recent development in document imaging (on 4 October 1995);
  
• Medical Records (on 2 August 1995);
  
• Multimedia; (on 7 June 1995);
  
• Automated Forms Processing (on 5 April 1995); and
  
• CD-ROM (on 1 February 1995).
  

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