Tuesday, March 7, 2006
9:00am - 10:30pm

Special User’s Group 1: MDID User’s Group

The Madison Digital Image Database is a freely available open source software application developed at James Madison University to facilitate teaching with digital images online and in the classroom. This session will bring current and potential MDID users together to share their experiences and to ask questions. Members of the MDID team will present software functionality added in 2005 and upcoming new features, including collection sharing between institutions, faculty assisted collection building, interoperability with other systems, and support for new media formats. They will also help facilitate discussion on MDID topics pertinent to the attendees. More information is available at http://mdid.org/.

Moderator: Christina Updike

Presenters: Andreas Knab, James Madison University
                    Kevin Hegg, James Madison University

11:00am - 12:30am

User’s Group 3: Image Cataloger's Forum

Catalogers join this open forum to discuss the burning issues faced each day as we try to implement the developing standards and best practices of image cataloging. During this years session we wish to review all of the current endeavors that affect image cataloging and open the dialog to assess these efforts. Then we will focus on a hot topic to be determined by the interests expressed just prior to the conference on VRA-L or directed to the moderators. We will report on our progress toward making this an official ongoing forum within VRA and determine next year's moderator.

Moderators: Eileen Fry, Indiana University at Bloomington
                     Barbara Furbush, Getty Research Institute