Thursday, March 29
8 am-6:00 pm
Registration Desk
Pavilion Five
VRA History Display
Pavilion Foyer
8-10:30 am
Buffet Breakfast
Salon 1A and 1B
8-10:30 a.m.
VRA Annual Business Meeting
Salons 1A and 1B
The Annual Business Meeting is the official forum for conduction association business. The agenda includes the President’s State of the Association; select officers reports; brief reports from committee chairs; updates on current and future association projects and activities; the recognition of outgoing officers, committee chairs, and appointees, the induction of incoming officers, committee chairs, and appointees; the presentation of the VRA Travel Awards; a presentation on the 2008 annual conference city; and questions and announcements from the audience. All members are encouraged to attend, and enjoy a continental breakfast while they catch up on Association business.
10:30 am-5:00 pm
VRAffle
Pavilion Six
11 am-12:30 pm
Session 6: “Is Anyone Using?”: A Cavalcade of Interoperability Strategies
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This session features a series of 7-10 minute demonstrations by VR practitioners showing interoperability solutions with two or more applications. The session will be a demonstration of REAL-LIFE strategies from the community (rather than a vendor session). Participants will show how applications interoperate in the classroom or in integrated access situations. Each demonstration will include a brief explanation of the strategy so that the audience can take away real solutions. Participants' brief demos will address three points: what is the challenge? show the solution, and state how you did it. Demos will feature interoperability strategies between/among the following types of applications: Course Management systems, Institutional repositories, Collection Management Systems, Presentation tools, Library systems, Museum systems, Federated Search, and licensed content
| Organizer: | Elisa Lanzi, Smith College |
| Moderator: | Jolene de Verges and Elisa Lanzi, Smith College |
| Speakers: | Sarah Falls, University of Richmond Mark Pompelia, Rice University Brooke Cox, Depauw University Linda Reynolds, Williams College Rebecca Price, University of Michigan Alex Martinez, University of Denver |
| 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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One of the goals of VRACore is to enable cultural heritage institutions to share information about their collections. As we move from individual databases towards shared repositories, the understanding that different communities have about "works" and their relationships to images may present visual resource collections with unexpected challenges. This session will explore how the concept of "works" has been discussed in various metadata communities and the role that works play in visual resource collections through VRACore and CCO. Members of the panel will lead us from abstract models of works to the implications of works in the systems used to manage visual resources.
| Organizer/Moderator: | Richard Urban, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign |
| Speakers: | Jonathan Furner, University of California-Los Angeles Sherman Clark, New York University Richard Urban, University of Illinois-Urbana/ Champaign Tammy Moorse, University of Toronto - Mississauga |
12:00-2:00 pm
Meeting: SEI Implementation
Pavilion Three
12:30-2:00 pm – Lunch
Meeting: Mid Atlantic Chapter
Pavilion One
Meeting: Education Committee
Pavilion Two
Ask the Experts
Susan Jane Williams, Databases
Are you pondering building a database or choosing a database product? Wondering how such a cataloging tool fits into a larger delivery system? Want to know how to wrangle data from one corral (product) to another? Have either specific questions or general questions about these issues, and the application of Core 4 and XML in everyday use? Then come sit a spell with Susan Jane Williams, Data Specialist, Scholars Resource and chaw it over. Greenhorns and Old Hands both welcome.
By Prior Reservation Only. Contact Marcia Focht, mfocht@binghamton.edu for more information.
Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheons:
Oak Room
Unique Issues for Small Schools in a Big World
Lunch Leaders: Linda Reynolds, Williams College (outgoing VRA Sectretary)
Allen Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (incoming VRA President)
Small schools face unique issues and their concerns are often overlooked as they compete for a voice in the larger community. The Lunch will provide an excellent forum to discuss issues facing smaller institutions.
Analog to Digital: Making New Media Work for You
Trudy Levy, Image Intregration
Kathe Hinks Albrecht, American University
Talk with technical expert and Principal of Image Integration, Trudy Levy, about issues such as color management, image preservation and retrieval, and digital workflow. Discuss topics such as faculty training, facilitating cross-campus collaboration, and end-user issues with vetern digital practitioner Kathe Albrecht. Whether you are dealing with the basics of digital programming at your institution, running analog and digital shops simultaneously, or have successfully navigated much of the digital terrain, this Lunch will allow you to learn from others experiences and share your own.
1-4:30 pm
Tour 3 - A Masterpiece Day (More information)
Depart from Ballroom Level
2-3:30 pm
Session 7: Color Management from A to Z
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Color Management from A-to-Z will explore the impact of color space and light when converting between analog and digital. Monitors, scanners, digital cameras, proofers, and presses have color gamut’s that vary in size. In order to produce a digital or printed image with specific colors the color gamuts must be the same size. Color management adjusts the size of the gamuts for each imaging device, when the gamut’s match you can create predictable and consistent color. Utilizing the standards created by the International Color Consortium (ICC) visual resource professionals can ensure a portable color management system that is independent of specific suppliers and platforms.
Successful implementation of a color management system will give 'appearance consistency' wherever images are rendered-a valuable practice for institutions that utilize images. As leaders in a visual world, visual resource professionals should acquire the skills and make common the practice of color managed workflow.
This panel will discuss: color space, lighting, calibration, characterization, standards, instruments, software, digital capture, digital output, print output, and workflow.
| Organizer: | Tammi Moe, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar |
| Speakers: | Tammi Moe, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar
Alexander J. Nichols, Michigan State University Eric Schwab, Ontario College of Art and Design |
Special User’s Group 4: MDID Special User’s Group
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The Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) is a freely distributed, open source software application developed at James Madison University to facilitate teaching with digital images online and in the classroom. This session will bring MDID users, and potential users, together to share their experiences and to ask questions. Members of the MDID development team will demonstrate new features added in the past year, talk about ongoing development and share upcoming enhancements. The team will also report on JMU's IMLS grant that is supporting development of new interoperability components. (More information is at http://mdid.org)
| Organizer: | Christina Updike, James Madison University |
| Moderators: | Kevin Hegg and Andreas Knab, James Madison University |
3-5 pm
Meeting: SEI Task Force
Pavilion Two
4-5:30 pm
VRA Core 4.0 and CCO Mini Workshop
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This free mini-workshop workshop is targeted at conference attendees who are already attempting to implement CCO at their institution and desire to discuss implementation issues. The workshop will provide guided self-help to assist the participants in moving forward with the implementation of standards in the context of their specific local situations. Those who need comprehensive instruction about CCO should attend Saturday's day-long CCO and VRA Core 4.0 workshop, “Image Metadata Crash Course.”
The format of the workshop will be “seminar” style and example driven with the topics for discussion solicited from the participants.The content will be built around these issues. The experts will speak briefly about selected issues and propose appropriate solutions; the participants will then be asked to brainstorm and ask further questions.
This workshop will not present or focus on the CCO Guidelines or the VRA Core although the participants should be well acquainted with this material as the discussions will be informed by these documents.This will not be a cataloging workshop.It will be a new forum which fosters dialog between the participants on the one hand and the leaders and experts on the other about specific issues that we all encounter in the field.We hope that it will bridge a gap between and complement the full day workshop, “Image Metadata Crash Course” and the one-on-one “Ask the Experts” opportunities.
We anticipate fruitful, grassroots generated discussions on issues that arise when implementations occur are constrained by limited or restricted resourcessuch as when a collection lacks a cataloger or when it does not have a VRA Core compliant relational database.What does one do when one is working with flat data?How does one work with an end user front end that is flat even when the back end database is relational?How does one deal with personal collections?How might one incorporate folksonomys and social tagging in our systems?How does one develop workflows that gets the work done while incorporating as much as possible from VRA Core, the CCO, and other appropriate authorities?
Sign-up for this workshop is first-come, first served, and limited at 20 participants.
| Moderators: | Marcia Focht, Binghamton University Margaret Webster, Cornell University |
Session 8: A Burgeoning Beyond Restraint: Delivering Video, Audio, and Image Data to the Classroom
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With advances in presentation platforms, file storage systems, and the increasing functionality and power of computer hardware, software, and network infrastructures, there is very little to hold back an educational institution from implementing a full-featured, bleeding-edge multimedia delivery system. During this session, we will demonstrate different systems built to take advantage of these advances in digital technology, and begin a discussion to further advance the development and implementation of such systems, while remaining mindful of very real restrictions placed upon us by fair use and intellectual property considerations.
During this session we will address three important areas software and hardware requirements for storage and delivery, the development and usage of advanced media delivery tools, and a discussion of questions surrounding copyright and security policies.
System demonstrations will include the DU-VAGA media presentation application, the DORA digital object repository application, and the Media Mill storage, processing and delivery service.
| Organizers: | Leslie Trumble and Joseph Labrecque, University of Denver |
| Speakers: | Carl Johnson, Brigham Young University Joseph Labrecque, University of Denver Leslie Trumble, University of Denver Lorrie McAllister, The Ohio State University Colin McFadden, University of Minnesota Rebecca Moss, University of Minnesota |
| Co-Organized by Brigham Young University, University of Denver, University of Minnesota, and The Ohio State University. | |
Ask the MDID Experts
Pavilion One
This format provides a “drop-in” opportunity for anyone who has MDID questions to have access to the MDID System Engineers and the Visual Resources Curator to learn about the open source software, make suggestions for further development, or receive technical and/or curatorial help.
| Presenters: | Andreas Knab, Kevin Hegg, Christina Updike, James Madison University |
5:30-6:30 pm
Meeting: San Diego Conference Planning Committee
Pavilion Three
7:30-9:30 pm
Tansey Dinner
Fee: $45 - Buses will start leaving at 6:30 from the Ballroom level.
"Party Like It's 1982!"!
This year’s location is a Kansas City institution, the Jack Stack BBQ. The Tansey dinner will take place in their private dining facility, The Freight House, a historic building across from Union Station. (More information)
