Organizations

1100 Wayne Avenue
Suite 1100
Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
Tel: (+1) 301-587-8202
Fax:(+1) 301-587-2711
E-mail: aiim@aiim.org
URL: http://www.aiim.org

AIIM European Headquarters

AIIM International
Boulevard St. Michel 15
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 32.2.743.15.43
Fax: 32.2.743.15.50

The Association for Information and Image Management is a 50-year-old organization for document management professionals.

AMIA

American Medical Informatics Association

4915 St. Elmo Avenue
Suite 401
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
Tel: (+1) 301-657-1291
Fax: (+1) 301-657-1296
E-mail: mail@amia2.amia.orgM
URL: http://www.amia.org

AMIA is a non-profit organization in the field of medical informatics which represents the United States in the informational arena of medical systems and informatics in international forums. Among its working groups are several who study methods for collecting, organizing, storing and retrieving medical records.

AMIA

Association of Moving Image Archivists

c/o National Center for Film and Video Preservation
American Film Institute
P.O. Box 27999
2021 N. Western Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90027
Tel: (+1) 213-856-7637
Fax: (+1) 213-856-7616
URL: http://wwwsc.library.unh.edu/amia/amia.htm

The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) is a professional association established to provide a means for cooperation among individuals concerned with the collection, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

New York Headquarters
Tel: (+1) 212-642-4900
General Fax: (+1) 212-398-0023
Sales Fax: (+1) 212-302-1286

Washington Office
Tel: (+1) 202-639-4090
Fax: (+1) 202-628-1886
Web Contact Form: http://www.ansi.org/msg.html
URL: http://www.ansi.org

The ANSI federation of is made up of U.S. businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies, institutes and consumer and labor interests working together to develop voluntary national consensus standards. ANSI provides the gateway for US participation in international standards organizations such as ISO and IEC

GCA

Graphic Communications Association

Contact: Marion Elledge, GCA
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314-2888
Tel: (+1) 703-519-8193
Fax: (+1) 703-548-2867
Email: melledge@gca.org
URL: http://www.gca.org

The nonprofit Graphic Communications Association was formed in 1966 to help member companies apply the latest computer-related technologies to all formns of print and electronic publishing. GCA's Information Technologies division deals with structured electronic information management for technical, reference and commercial publishing applications. This area covers automated document management, on-oine and Internet publishing, and related technical topics. The IT division -- since its inception -- has fostered the development and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and all of its derivitives, such as HyTime, HTML and DSSSL.

IMA

Interactive Multimedia Association

48 Maryland Avenue - Suite 202
Annapolis, MD 21401-8011 USA>
Tel: (+1) 410-626-1380
Fax: (+1) 410-263-0590
E-mail: info@ima.org
URL: http://www.ima.org

The IMA has a program available on their website called CD Match for a variety of operating systems which displays system information in a printable form. This is designed to help consumers match up their system's capabilities with application requirements. IMA encourages multimedia developers to use their labeling guidelines for system requirements in the hope that such voluntary compliance will improve consumers' acceptance of and ability to use multimedia on their equipment. The IMA CD Match Uniform Label and CD Match logo are available royalty free to CD publishers, equipment manufacturers, retailers and distributors, but those who wish to use it must negotiate a license with the IMA to ensure compliance with their usage guidelines.

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

Dr. Lawrence D. Eicher, Secretary-General
1, rue de Varembè
Case postale 56
CH-1211 Genève 20, Switzerland
Tel: (+ 41) 22 749 01 11
Fax: (+ 41) 22 733 34 30
Telex: (+ 41) 22 05 iso ch
Telegram: isorganiz
E-mail: central@isocs.iso.ch
URL: http://www.iso.ch

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a federation of national standards bodies from about 100 countries, one from each country. ISO's mission is to promote the development of standardization and related activities to facilitate the international exchange of goods and services, and to develop cooperation in intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in international agreements which are published as International Standards.

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

IEC Central Office
3, rue de Verenbè
P.O.Box 131
1211 Genèva 20 Switzerland
Tel: (+41) 22 919 02 11
Fax: (+41) 22 919 03 00
E-mail: dn@iec.ch
URL: http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/IEC/home.html

The IEC is an international body composed of national committees, numbering 49 at present, whose purpose is to promote international cooperation about standards in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering.

SIGCAT

Special Interest Group for CD Applications & Technology

Dr. Jerry McFaul, Executive Director
SIGCAT
P.O. Box 3706
Reston, VA 22090 USA
Tel: (+1) 703-435-4661
URL: http://www.sigcat.org

The first and largest users group for CD-ROM, founded by Jerry McFaul in 1986, this organization has been influential in obtaining US Government support for the use of CD-ROM applications. Sponsors of the CD-ROM Information Resouce Center (CIRC), a laboratory for members to get hands-on experience with CD-ROM development tools and playback solutions. Also sponsors of seminars about various topics pertaining to CD-ROM development. Membership is open to anyone interested in furthering the use of CD-ROM applications. No dues, but newsletter subscriptions cost $40 US per year.

OPA

Optical Publishing Association

Richard A. Bowers, Executive Director P.O. Box 21268
Columbus, OH 43221 USA
Tel: (+1) 614-442-8805
Fax: (+1) 614-442-8815
email: rbowers@meta-media.com

Original Publisher of CompuServe's The CDForums [GO CDFORUM], the CDROMBase Online, a listing of over 10,000 CD-ROM titles [GO CDROMBASE], the newsletter of the OPA and a periodical statistical survey of the CD industry for OPA members. Membership dues for individuals and companies, sponsorships based on company size.

OSTA

Optical Storage Technology Association

Raymond C. Freeman, Jr., OSTA Facilitator
311 East Carrillo Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101 USA
Tel: (+1) 805-963-3853
Fax: (+1) 805-962-1541
URL: http://www.osta.org

OSTA is a trade organization whose purpose is to stimulate increased demand for writable optical data storage products in a broad range of applications through education, cooperative promotion, and strategic action. CD-R technology is included in the association's program.

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