VRA 2008 San Diego Conference

With San Diego International Airport only 3 miles northwest of downtown San Diego and the electric Gaslamp Quarter, you can move from jet lagged to jet setting in one quick taxi trip. From suave steakhouses and eclectic ethnic fare, dinner clubs to sultry jazz bars, the over 100 restaurants intermingled with dance and drink are all situated within blocks of each other.

Preliminary program schedule [pdf]

Tuesday, March 11 - Registration Desk open: 6 pm - 9 pm
8 am – 5 pm VRA Board Meeting #1
1 pm – 5 pm VRA Foundation Board Meeting
6 pm – 9 pm Registration Desk
Wednesday, March 12 - Registration Desk open: 8 am - 6 pm
8 am – 6 pm Registration Desk
8:30 - 10:30 am IPR Plenary Session: Image Rights: Perspectives from Copyright Owners
11 am – 5 pm VRAffle
11 am - 12:30 pm Session 1: Free Association: Social Tagging in Online Collections	11 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: Salt Cellars, Oliphants, and Gems: Preserving Legacy Image Collections
12:30 - 2 pm Birds-of-a-Feather Network Luncheon Meeting: Nominating Committee Meeting: Archives Task Force Meeting: Digital Initiatives Advisory Group Committee Ask the Experts: Megan Batty, Teaching Teachers ARTstor and MDID; Howard Brainen, Digital imaging (by reservation)
1 pm – 5 pm Tour #1 – A Tour into San Diego History
2 pm – 6 pm Workshop 1: Subject Access to Visual Materials	2 - 3:30 pm Special Users Group: Madison Digital Image Database (MDID)
	3:30 - 4:30 pm Ask the MDID Experts
	4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Special User Group 2: VRA Digital Matchmaking Group
5 pm – 6 pm SEI Reunion at “The Bar”, Westin San Diego
6 - 7:30 pm Chapter Meetings: Southeast Chapter Southern California Chapter Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Thursday, March 13 - Registration Desk open: 8 am - 6 pm
7:30-9 am First Time Attendees and New Members Breakfast
8 am – 6 pm Registration Desk
8 am - 5 pm VRAffle
9 - 10:30 am Session 3: Shark Suspended in Formaldehyde: Open Forum on Documenting Contemporary Art	9 - 10:30 am Workshop 2: VRA 4 Core Basics
9 am – 1 pm Tour #2 – California Coast and Tidepool Walk
11 am - 12:30 pm VRA Foundation information session
12:30 - 2 pm Birds-of-a-Feather Network Luncheon Meeting: Education Committee Meeting: Publications Programming Group Meeting: Intellectual Property Rights Committee Ask the Experts: Murtha Baca, Descriptive Metadata; Jeanne Keefe, Digital Asset Management System (by reservation)
2 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Interloping Images: Expanding Access for Those Outside of the Norm
2 - 5:30 pm Workshop 3: Getty Vocabularies: Training for Contributors, Encore
4 pm - 5:30 pm Special User Group 3: ARTstor User Group Special User Group 4: VireoCat User Group
6 - 9 pm Membership Dinner Keynote Speaker: Maurizio Seracini
Friday, March 14 - Registration Desk open: 8 am - 6 pm
8 am – 6 pm Registration Desk
8 am - 10:30 am VRA Business Meeting & Breakfast
10:30 am - 6 pm Exhibit Hall
10:30 am – 5 pm VRAffle
11 am - 12:30 pm Session 5: Common Threads: Libraries and Visual Resources Collections Merging, Partnering, and Finding New Ways to Work Together Session 6: Improving your image
12:30 - 2 pm Birds-of-a-Feather Network Luncheon Meeting: Financial Advisory Committee Meeting: Membership Committee Meeting: Data Standards Committee Ask the Experts: Susan-Jane Williams, Database Design and Functions (by reservation)
1 pm – 5 pm Tour #3 - Coronado Mini Trek
2 - 5:30 pm Workshop 4 : Seeking the right path for VR users	2 pm-3:30 pm Session 7: Throwing the Cat among the Pigeons: Keeping Visual Resources Positions Viable through the Digital Transition
	4 pm - 5:30 pm Meeting: SEI Implementation Team Special Users Group 5: The Transitional Space or Moving On Up: Facilities Planning in the Digital Age
5:00 - 6:00 Meeting: VRA Chapter Chairs at "The Bar", Westin San Diego
5:30 - 6:30 VRA Strategic Plan Task Force
8 - 11 pm Tansey Event: The 2008 Tansey Fundraising Event “An Evening with Charles Phoenix”
Saturday, March 15 - Registration Desk open: 8 am - 6 pm
7:00 am - 8:00 am Meeting: Toronto Planning
7:30 am – 9 am Meeting: Awards Committee Meeting: Development Committee Meeting: CCO Project Committee
8 am – 6 pm Registration Desk
8 am - 5 pm Exhibit Hall
8 am – 4 pm VRAffle
9 - 12:30 am Poster Session 1: Computational Linguistics in Image Access Research Poster Session 2: Informal to Formal: Managing Personal and Public Collections Using DIVA Poster Session 3: Capturing the Web Poster Session 4: Researching Art-Historical information using the TTC-ATENEA system: interactivity-based approach
12:30 - 2 pm Leadership Luncheon Ask the Experts: Trudy Levy, Strategic Planning; Maureen Whalen, Rights Information (by reservation)
2 - 3:30 pm Workshop 5: VRA Core 4 Intermediate Session 8: Digital Image Anatomy Session 9: Digital (Dis)Order: Implementing Professional and Organizational Change
4 - 5:30 pm Special Users Group 6: Museum Visual Resources
6 - 7:30 pm Event: VRAffle
Sunday, March 16 - Registration Desk open: 8 am - 12 pm
7:30 am – 9 am Chapter Meetings
8 am – 12 pm Registration Desk
9 - 10:30 am Session 10: Scholarly Communication and Collaboration in the VR World
9:30 am – 2 pm Tour #4 - City Tour – San Diego Old and New
11 am - 12:30 pm Session 12: Collaboration and Aggregation: Challenges and Opportunities with Unified Access
2 pm - 3:30 pm Session 12: Architecture and the Built Environment: Special Projects and Cataloging Issues	12 pm – 5:30 pm VRA Board Meeting #2
4 pm - 5:30 pm Special User Group 7: Iris Users Group Special User Group 8: Insight Users Group	12 pm – 5:30 pm VRA Board Meeting #2

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