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Thursday, March 13 7:30 am – 9:00 am First Time Attendees and New Members Breakfast8:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration8:00 am – 5:00 pm VRAffle9-10:30 am Session 3: Shark Suspended in Formaldehyde: Open Forum on Documenting Contemporary ArtContemporary visual art tests the cataloger with an assortment of interesting predicaments. From the thought-provoking and controversial to the esoteric and abstruse, the work of today’s contemporary artist engages audiences through technology and variable media, combinations of audio, single and double-channel video, intimate sensory and experiential situations. While some artists have moved toward techno-sophistication, others are creating anti-technological spaces, sometimes intensely personal and biological, environments that are often ephemeral, live, participatory and time-based. A sampling of the materials listed in an image database of contemporary installations include human teeth and hair, live birds, rotting carcasses, melting wax, 750,000 pennies, (with instructions that they be laid by hand). How are the communities of catalogers and curators recording information about the audio and video properties of these new works? Are catalogers expanding into new taxonomies to describe non-traditional materials and art-making processes? What terminology is being used to describe the work when it clearly expands the boundaries of two- and three- dimensional art? What are the challenges for museums in preserving works of art with a rich array of technological and material component requirements? What tools do educators need to adequately represent and teach contemporary art and culture? The work of pioneering artists in the contemporary arena is exciting, stimulating, confusing, random, disturbing, full of invective but also enlightening, soothing and serene. In other words, it is what art has always been about. This forum is designed to engage participants in the documentation practices and methods of contemporary art from the perspective of museum curators, visual resources professionals, educators, and artists.
Workshop 2: VRA 4 Core BasicsIf you are new to Core 4.0 or you would just like to brush up on your understanding of this relatively new standard the Core 4 Basic workshop will cover topics such as: Core 4s purpose and development in the context of XML; its elements, subelements, and attributes; and will address issues of display vs. indexing; works vs. images; and relational vs. flat file database structures. Participants will work through a few examples to illustrate the covered topics.
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tour #2 – California Coast and Tidepool Walk11 am-12:30 pm VRA Foundation Information session
12:30-2 pm Lunch Birds-of-a-Feather Network LuncheonMeeting: Education CommitteeMeeting: Publications Programming GroupMeeting: Intellectual Property Rights CommitteeWorkshop 2: Getty Vocabularies: Training for Contributors, EncoreAsk the ExpertsDescriptive Metadata Murtha will provide advice and mentoring on descriptive metadata (including metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies and thesauri, and cataloging standards such as CCO) for enhancing access to visual materials. The use of local, collection-specific authority files and thesauri will also be addressed. Digital Asset Management System Are you considering a Digital Asset Management System? What do you need to know before you get started and who needs to be involved in the process. 2:00-3:30 pm Session 4: Interloping Images: Expanding Access for Those Outside of the NormThe ever expanding field of Visual Resources has brought us to a point where we must look for better ways to provide description and access for images of works that fall within debatable categories. These images may not necessarily represent art, architecture, or cultural artifacts. Images falling outside-the-norm may be in their own separate collection or reside in collections alongside images typically found in a Visual Resources database. In some instances, not treating some of these more questionable works as cultural objects may actually facilitate better access, depending upon the intended audience. Approaching the content as historic, scientific, or folksomic, may be far more fruitful. In some disciplines and areas of research, no rules or guidelines for description and access exist. Within these fields, the desire to access and share images in a collaborative fashion has necessitated the modification of existing standards or the creation of entirely new standards.
2:00 pm-5:30 pm Workshop 2: Getty Vocabularies: Training for Contributors, EncoreFollowing up on last year’s successful training session, the Getty is again offering a presentation to train users of the Getty Vocabularies how to contribute via the online Web form. The AAT, ULAN, and TGN grow through contributions from the user community. Contributing your terms makes these resources more useful for everyone. Do you need new AAT terms for your cataloging? Is an artist that you need missing from the ULAN? Do you want to add a new place name to the TGN? A Vocabulary Expert will be on hand to give instructions, discuss pertinent issues, and answer your questions. Instructions will also be available for those wishing to contribute in bulk via our XML format.
4:00-5:30 pm Special User Group 3: ARTstor User GroupARTstor is a digital library of images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship in the arts and associated fields. ARTstor contains over 600,000 images of art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods. ARTstor representatives will give brief presentations on topics such as collections news, technology enhancements, the ARTstor Hosting Program, and progress on interoperation efforts. A Q&A session will follow; conference participants are encourages to submit questions in advance to the session moderator.
Special User Group 4: VireoCat User GroupVireoCat is a free cataloging utility written in Filemaker Pro (version 7 and later required), first distributed at the Miami conference. Now in version 2, it is VRA Core 4 and CCO compliant and supports export and import in XML, using Core 4 schema. There is a website, users group and list serv. The user group will discuss issues and desired fixes. Discussion will be led by Susan Jane Williams. Others in the group will speak about their experiences importing legacy data and moving to a relational structure. Members will also talk about the writing of XSLT stylesheets to "hook" VireoCat data to other applications such as Insight and MDID by the use of XML export. Everyone is welcome to this open meeting.
6:00-9:00 pm Membership DinnerKeynote Speaker: Maurizio Seracini Seracini, who graduated with a degree in Bioengineering from UCSD is referred to in Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” as the Italian art diagnostician “who unveiled the unsettling truth” about Da Vinci's work. In late March, his research on Da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi" was part of a major exhibit at the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, and in the spring, Seracini was the subject of a British documentary, "The Da Vinci Detective". Seracini recently joined Calit2 to lead its project to develop a new center for science in the interest of world cultural heritage, in collaboration with the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Division of Arts and Humanities. Seracini is the Director of UCSD’s new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology, or CISA3 - a unique program that will research the history behind the construction of paintings, sculptures and buildings by using sophisticated diagnostic-imaging technology. http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol3no1/features/seracini.htm We thank ARTstor for the generous contribution, the ARTstor Speaker Fund, which allowed us to invite Dr. Seracini to be our keynote speaker. |