At a Glance

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Wednesday, March 12

Thursday, March 13

Friday, March 14

Saturday, March 15

Sunday, March 16

Sunday, March 16

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Chapter Meetings

8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Registration

9:00-10:30 am

Session 10: Scholarly Communication and Collaboration in the VR world

The world of technology has become part of the fabric of how people live their lives. Technology and the implications for teaching and research are beginning to be played out as faculty and image collections begin using digital content beyond images in the classroom. Scholarly Communication is the buzzword for everything from online publishing of print materials to how scholars think about producing content other than print in the online world. In addition to providing new ways of providing and delivering content, these same technologies also have the potential to facilitate collaboration between scholars. While librarians and visual resources professionals have eagerly embraced technology as a means of collaboration, there are fewer forums devoted specifically to scholarly collaboration. This session will explore different approaches to scholarly communication and collaboration in order to assess the direct impact such activities may have on visual resource collections and professionals. ArchNet (http://archnet.org) is best known among librarians and architectural scholars for the quality of its Digital Library, an archive of images, publications, and other media files. The ArchNet website also encompasses a much wider functionality, and reaches an audience which includes but is not limited to scholars. We’d present an overview of this project, discussing the different areas of the site and illustrating how ArchNet has developed over time. In doing so, we’d like to give history on how ArchNet was designed, how its collection and community developed in tandem, and how we envision it changing in the near future. The Society of Architectural Historians Architectural Visual Resource Network is a grant project to implement a three year pilot to develop tools and methods for creating a shared digital repository. Scholars, visual resources curators, and librarians, will collaborate with the SAH and ARTstor in building this repository. The pilot will also make it possible to analyze the changing nature of work for faculty and image collections participating in such a collaborative model, and to determine if – and how – such collaboration should be integrated into normal work patterns in image collections, libraries, and academic institutions.

9:30 am – 2:00 pm

Tour #4 City Tour – San Diego Old and New

11:00 am-12:30 pm

Session 11: Collaboration and Aggregation: Challenges and Opportunities with Unified Access

The desire to aggregate digital content into single repositories or portals has provided increased opportunities for working across organizational boundaries. Opportunities also present new challenges as organizations have different needs and expectations related to the building of such services. This session will provide perspectives from both the content provider and content aggregator illustrating the myriad of decisions and agreements related to digital projects. Speakers will address challenges across a wide range of issues including: organizing diverse groups, communication across disciplines, metadata requirements for local and shared environments, copyright, project management, and collection representation.

12:00 pm – 5:30 pm

VRA Board Meeting #2

2:00-3:30 pm

Session 12: Architecture and the Built Environment: Special Projects and Cataloging Issues

The complexities of cataloging images of architecture and the built environment are myriad. Classification issues in architecture, landscape architecture, construction, and urban planning are often outside the scope of traditional vocabularies. Identifying and documenting buildings in a fast-paced urban environment can be confounding. Keeping up with contemporary design and construction issues in a global arena can be frustrating. How do architecture collections deal with these issues in a manner that is responsive to copyright, curriculum, and context? This session will deal with a number of these larger issues, while concentrating on specific problems in several collections.

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Special User Group 7: Iris Users Group

A new version, IRIS 2007, including an XML export compliant with the VRA Core Schema, will be demonstrated. Comments and suggestions will be welcomed from IRIS users and others. The Image Resource Information System (IRIS) evolved as a cooperative venture, begun in 1997 by a group of seven institutions. Approximately 25 institutions currently participate in using and developing this FileMaker application. Our work during the past three years has attempted to implement the VRA Core Categories v.4.0 and CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects), to facilitate data sharing within the IRIS community and beyond, and to achieve interoperability with image presentation systems such as Luna Insight and MDID2.

All are welcome to attend! You do not need to be an IRIS user to learn from or contribute to this discussion.

Special User Group 8: Insight Users Group

LUNA is the new dynamic web based front end to Insight® collections.  With LUNA , users can perform simple keyword searches as well as more complex structured queries, and control how they view, browse, and organize their results to create groups and presentations.  LUNA contains the Web 2.0 tools your users are demanding which enable them to save and share their work by linking and embedding any view, image, group, or presentation. Luna Imaging's CTO, Drake Zabriskie, will present an overview of Insight® v6.0 development and showcase LUNA to the VRA Community.

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