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Visual Resources Association
27th Annual Conference
March 18-21, 2009

At a Glance

Full Schedule (PDF)

Wednesday, March 18

Thursday, March 19

Friday, March 20

Saturday, March 21

 

 

 

General Conference Support
provided by:

Two Cat Digital

Program At a Glance

Wednesday, March 18 - Registration Desk open: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

8:30 am - 4:00 pm
VRAffle

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop 1:
Issues in VR Administration

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Advisory Group:
ARTstor’s Hosted Collection (invitation only)

9:30 am - 11:00 am
Mini‐Workshop 1:
Dynamic Duo: Cataloging with VRA Core 4 and CCO

10:00 - 11:30 am
Tour 1:
Downtown Toronto

11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Meeting:
Mid-Atlantic Chapter

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Ask the Expert:
Databases, XML, and System Design

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Meeting:
Nominating Committee

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Meeting:
New York Chapter

1:30 - 3:00 pm
Tour 2: Financial Centre Area

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Ask the Expert: Digital Asset Management

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Meeting:
Canada Chapter

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Mini‐Workshop 2: Metadata with Muscle; Flexing the Power of Core 4 and CCO via XML

4:00 - 6:00 pm
VRA Plenary Session:
Fair Use / Fair Dealing; Which Should Give You More Comfort?

6:00 - 8:00pm
Visual Resource Association Welcome Party

8:00 pm - ?
SEI Reunion

Thursday, March 19 - Registration Desk open: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

7:30 - 9:00 am
First Time Attendees and New Members Breakfast

8:30 am - 5:00 pm
VRAffle

9:00 - 10:30 am
Session 2: Outside the Canon

9:00 - 10:30 am
Ask the Expert:
Creating a Wiki/blog for your VRC

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session 4: Engaging New Technologies, Part I

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Ask the Expert: Teaching Teachers ARTstor and MDID
Birds of a Feather Network Luncheons

Meeting: Education Committee
Meeting: Publications Programming Group
Meeting: Intellectual Property Rights Committee
Meeting: SEI Implementation Team

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session 4: Engaging New Technologies, Part II

2:00 - 4:30 pm
Meeting: VRA Foundation Board II

4:00 - 5:30 pm
Special Users Group: ARTstor

7:00 - 10:00 pm
VRA Members Reception and Keynote Address

Friday, March 20 - Registration Desk open: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

8:00 - 10:30 am
VRA Business Meeting & Breakfast

10:30 am - 5:00 pm
VRAffle

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session 8: SAHARA at Launch Time

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Meeting: Chapter Chairs

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Ask the Expert: Digital Video and Audio in the Classroom
Birds of a Feather Network Luncheons

Meeting: Financial Advisory Committee
Meeting: Membership Committee
Meeting: Data Standards Committee

2:00 – 5:00 pm
Vendor Slam

4:30 – 6:00 pm
VRA Student Members: Question & Answer Time

5:00 - 6:30 pm
Special Users Group:
EmbARK

5:00 - 6:30 pm
Special Interest Group: Cataloging

5:00 - 6:30 pm
Meeting:
Awards Committee

5:00 - 6:30 pm
Special Interest Group: VRA Digital Matchmaking

8:00 - 9:30 pm
Tansey Event: The 2009 Tansey Fundraising Event

Saturday, March 21 - Registration Desk open: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

7:30 - 9:00 am
Meeting:
CCO Project
Meeting:
Development Committee

8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop 2:
Selling Visual Resources: Educating and Engaging the Educators

9:00 - 10:30 am
Meeting:
Atlanta Committee
Meeting: Travel Awards Committee

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Special Users Group:
MDID

9:00 am - 3:30 pm
VRAffle

10:00 - 11:30 am
Tour 3:
Old Toronto

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Special Interest Group:
Museum Visual Resources

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Meeting:
VRA Archives

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Leadership Luncheon
Birds of a Feather Network Luncheons

1:30 - 3:00 pm
Tour 4: Toronto's Theatre District

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Special Users Group:
IRIS

2:00 - 3:30 pm
Special Interest Group:
Getty Vocabularies; CONA and Multilinguality: Update on the Getty Vocabularies

2:00 - 6:00 pm
Workshop 3:
Photoshop for Artworks; Cool Tools & Techniques for Enhancing Images of Paintings, Sculpture, Prints & Drawings

3:30 - 5:00 pm
VRAffle: Sack-Up & Set-Up

4:00 - 5:30 pm
Special Users Group:
VCat Users Group

4:00 - 5:30 pm
Meeting: DIAG Committee

4:00 - 5:30 pm
Special Interest Group:
Architecture Curators

4:00 - 5:30 pm
Meeting: Southern California Chapter

6:00 - 7:30 pm
VRAffle

 


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