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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.

At a Glance

Full Schedule (PDF)

Wednesday, March 12

Thursday, March 13

Friday, March 14

Saturday, March 15

Sunday, March 16

 

Program At a Glance

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

 


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