Saturday, March 31
8 am-2:00 pm
Registration Desk
Pavilion Five
VRA History Display
Pavilion Foyer
9-10:30 am
Seminar 4: Are We Speaking the Same Language? Communication Strategies for the Visual Resources Professional
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The professional world of the visual resources professional is often highly complex, requiring broad-ranging communication skills as one navigates across a professional landscape that includes faculty, students, technologists, administrators, and increasingly, individuals at other institutions. This seminar addresses the ever-important but often neglected issue of communication practices. How should I talk to my student employees? How do I approach administrators? How can I use language effectively to level the playing field between myself and a difficult faculty member? Why can't I get the computer specialist to understand what I'm saying? Several VR professionals will provide insights into these questions in a series of brief talks designed to get to the heart of these common issues.
| Moderator: | Betha Whitlow, Washington University in Saint Louis |
| Speakers: | Colette Lunday Brautigam, Lawrence University Emy Nelson Decker, University of Georgia Sheryl Frisch, Califronia Polytechnic State University Elizabeth Schaub, University of Texas-Austin Jackie Spafford, University of California-Santa Barbara |
| Respondent: | Maureen Burns, University of California, Irvine |
9 am-12:30 pm, 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
Workshop 5: Image Metadata Crash Course
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Learn how to create quality, sharable image metadata using standard tools such as VRA Core 4.0 and CCO. The day long workshop will feature multiple interactive components, with several instructors available for personal, hands-on assistance. The agenda includes: 1) Basic Principles (with curriculum from SEI and CCO training) 2) Practice (many hands-on exercises and tutorials, for example, small breakout groups will work on work/image decisions and map the data sets to Core 4) 3) Demonstrations (e.g., applications that incorporate Core 4/CCO showing how complex works can be cataloged exporting to XML to various end user interfaces examples of indexing vs. display 4) Strategic Ideas for more efficient cataloging, incorporating end user metadata, enhancing vendor data, and facilitating access to sharable personal collections 5) Ask the Expert.
| Organizer: | Elisa Lanzi, Smith College |
| Instructors: | Jan Eklund, UC Berkeley Elisa Lanzi, Smith College Ann Whiteside, MIT |
11 am-12:30 pm
Special User’s Group 6: VireoCat User’s Group
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VireoCat 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. Full information and free download is available at:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/art/visual_resources/vireocat.shtml
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.
| Organizer: | Susan Jane Williams, Scholars Resource |
| Speakers: | TBA |
12:30-5:30 pm
Executive Board Meeting #2
Conference Suite 341
