Program At a Glance
| Tuesday, March 27 | |
| 8:30-10:30 am Opening Session Session I: "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" The VRA at 25: Understanding Our Past & Framing a Future |
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| 11 am-12:30 pm Session 2: Melting Pot or Bouillabaisse: The Aggregation Dilemma Session 3: When Servers Crash: Disaster Planning in the Digital Age |
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12:30-2 pm – Lunch |
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| 2:30-5 pm Workshop 1: Educating the Educators: Teaching Faculty to Teach with Digital Images. Sponsored by the VRA Education Committee |
2-3:30 pm Seminar 1: The VRA 2006 Professional Status Survey: The planning process and preliminary data report |
| 4-5:30 pm Special User’s Group 1: Museum Visual Resources Special User’s Group 2: Getty Vocabularies: Training for Contributions |
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| 5:30-6:30 pm ARLIS-NA/VRA Joint Task Force on Collaboration |
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| 5:30-7 pm Meeting: Foundation Task Force Meeting: Southeast Chapter Meeting: Publications Program Group Ask the Experts: Jeanne Keefe SEI Reunion |
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| Wednesday, March 28 | |
| 7-9 am First-Time Attendees and New Members Breakfast |
7:30-9 am CCO Committee |
| 9-10:30 am Opening Session Session 4: Strategies for Data Migration in the age of CCO and VRA Core 4.0 Seminar 2: 35mm Slide Collections: Retention Criteria, Preservation Issues, Donation Ideas |
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| 11 am-12:30 pm Session 5: From Fair Use to Fair Trading: Creating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons. Sponsored by the DIAG (Digital Initiatives Advisory Group) |
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| 12:30-2 pmLunch Meeting: VRADS Committee Meeting: Development Committee Meeting: Financial Advisory Committee Ask the Experts: Megan Battey, Trudy Levy, Jenni Rodda Birds of a Feather Network Luncheon: Heather Seneff and Christina Updike/ Macie Hall and Betha Whitlow |
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| 2-5 pm Workshop 2: XML, the VRA Core, and the Image Collection |
2-3:30 pm Mini-Workshop: CCO and VRA Core 4.0 |
| 4-5:30 pm Special User’s Group 3: ARTstor Special User’s Group |
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| 6:30-9:30 pm The VRA Members' Reception |
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| Thursday, March 29 | |
| 8-10:30 am Buffet Breakfast and Annual Business Meeting |
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| 11 am-12:30 pm Session 6: “Is Anyone Using?”: A Cavalcade of Interoperability Strategies. Sponsored by the DIAG (Digital Initiatives Advisory Group) and complimentary to the session “From Fair Use to Fair Trading: Creating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons” Seminar 3: What is a Work? |
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| 12:30-2 pmLunch Meeting: Mid Atlantic Chapter Meeting: Education Committee Meeting: SEI Implementation Ask the Experts: Susan Jane Williams Birds of a Feather Network Luncheon: Alan Kohl and Linda Reynolds/Kathe Albrecht and Trudy Levy |
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2-3:30 pm |
3-5 pm Meeting: SEI Task Force |
| 4-5:30 pm VRA Core 4.0 and CCO Mini Workshop Session 8: A Burgeoning Beyond Restraint: Delivering Video, Audio, and Image Data to the Classroom Ask the MDID Experts |
3:30-5 pm Meeting: Travel Awards |
| 5:30-6:30 pm Meeting: San Diego Conference Planning Committee |
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| 7:30-9:30 pm Luraine Tansey Travel Award Fundraising Dinner Buses will start leaving at 6:30 from the Ballroom level. |
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| Friday, March 30 | |
7:30-9 am |
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| 9-10:30 am Session 9: Image Indexing: Current and Emerging Research of Access to Visual Materials Session 10: International Adoption and Use of VRA Core 4.0 and CCO |
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| 11 am-12:30 pm Session 11: Managing Student and Faculty Member Collections: Trials and Triumphs Special Users Group 5: IRIS Special User’s Group |
11 am-6 pm The Exhibit Hall |
| 12:30-2 pm – Lunch Leadership Luncheon: Invitation only Ask the Experts: Murtha Baca |
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| 2-5:30 pm Workshop 3: The Religions of Asia: Toward an Asian Authority. Sponsored by the VRA Education Committee Workshop 4: Getting Past No: Assessing Copyright Risk. Sponsored by the VRA IPR Committee |
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| Saturday, March 31 | |
| 9-10:30 am Seminar 4: Are We Speaking the Same Language? Communication Strategies for the Visual Resources Professional |
9 am-5 pm Workshop 5: Image Metadata Crash Course |
| 11 am-12:30 pm Special User’s Group 6: VireoCat User’s Group |
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