March 6 - 10, 2005

     Post-Conference Material Links

Session 1: Let's Get Together: Tools and Strategies for Sharing Data and Aggregating Collections

Powerpoint presentations by Sarah L. Shreeves and Gunter Waibel from Session 1: Resources page of The Digital Scene at http://www.vraweb.org/diag/resources.htm

Session 5
Tuesday March 8th, 11:00 am-12:30 pm

Metadata: a view from the trenches

Organizer: Barbara Rockenbach, ARTstor
Moderator : Dustin Wees, ARTstor

This session looks at digital repositories of cultural materials whose descriptive information has been reconciled across heterogeneous collections. Two rather distinct issues are explored: the challenges in building federated databases, and the emerging standards in content and formatting guidelines. The speakers will address community practices as well as institution-specific data structure and content issues. These include common data standards, data mapping and transformation techniques, and tools for the human cataloger. The usefulness of a large digital repository is largely dependent on how consistently cataloging has been performed by the contributor. This session will explore where the mapping and ingesting of multiple collections meets the nitty-gritty of diverse kinds of data and strategies for overcoming inconsistencies.

Presenters:
1. Ardys Kozbial, Metadata: the view from my trench, Union Catalog of Art Images
2. Emerson Morgan, Metadata: view from the trenches, VRA Data Standards Committee
3. Lena Zentall, Metadata challenges from the service provider perspective, CDL
4. Ricky Erway, When worlds collide, RLG

 

Session 9
Wednesday March 9th, 9:00 am-10:30 am

Navigating the Troubled Waters of Discontent with Digital Imaging Technology: a voyage of discovery

Powerpoint presentations for this session are available at http://www.arts.uci.edu/vrc/ResearhPreshtm.htm

Organizer/Moderator : Maureen Burns, University of California/Irvine

Why were the art history faculty not on the first ship out of port to discover the potential of using digital images for research and instruction? Why do intensive image users persist in remaining on the analog terra firma, reluctant to navigate digital waters with licensed databases and image services? Is the journey too long, the support inadequate, the search too challenging, or the reward insufficient? The goal of this session is to delve deeply into these practical, theoretical, methodological, and metaphysical matters to better understand this curious phenomenon. The panel will discuss obstacles, tactics, experiences, and trends useful for anticipating image user’s needs, experimenting with new imaging technology, and making adjustments to professional roles in order to sail with the changing tides. Can visual resources curators navigate and chart these newly discovered areas?

Presenters:
 1. Henry Pisciotta, Pennsylvania State University
2. Barbara Rockenbach, JSTOR
3. Susan Jane Williams, Freelance Consultant
4. Eileen Fry, Indiana University

MDID Users Group : Powerpoint presentations for this Group are availabe at http://mdid.org/papers.htm

Workshop 4: Managing a Digitization Project

This all day workshop was held at the VRA annual conference in 2005. It addressed the important issues that first-time managers of digitization projects face, providing an overview of every step in the process, from setting selection criteria to establishing an effective workflow to project evaluation. It did not address metadata solutions.

Trudy Levy, Image Integration covered the following topics

Planning, Standards and Procedures

New Tools - DAMs, Color

Project Management

Its support material is available below:

PowerPoint Show of presentation

Handouts and resources

Howard Brainen, Two Cat Digital covered the following topics

Decision Making - In house or Out sourcing

Color Management

Link to Howard's material at his site

 

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