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Metadata Automation: The Current Landscape and Future Developments
No full textAs a profession, librarians are already seeing the ways in which automation is challenging traditional methods of cataloging and raising questions about the future of manual cataloging work. Workflows for metadata creation—from the most basic to those involving data scraping, harvesting from APIs, and data migration and manipulation—indicate a shift from a cataloger’s traditional role of metadata creation to technologically-oriented metadata harvesting and management. Additional new technologies, like deep learning computation, are beginning to address the call for automated metadata creation for visual resources, reinforcing this shift and creating new opportunities for innovative workflows and description. New technologies have the potential to profoundly impact the ways that libraries ready themselves and their data for the semantic-web environment and redefine cataloging work moving forward. Will these further automation advances really change the role of the metadata librarian? This article argues that the continued escalation of automation and linked data in the semantic web will only be a continuation of metadata librarians’ current technological skills and commitment to data quality control
Review of "Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists"
No full textSarah Osborne Bender provides a review of Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
VR in VR: Capture and Display of Virtual Reality Photospheres in a Visual Resources Context
No full textAt Michigan State, we have begun investigating some possibilities for creating and displaying photospheres in art history courses. Virtual reality-style presentation is particularly appealing for teaching architecture, archaeological sites, and other large, complex works that benefit from a spatial understanding that is otherwise difficult to communicate effectively when actual travel is not an option. Our pedagogical experiments are at a very early stage at this point, but the following report seeks to summarize and recommend various technical approaches to the tasks of creating and displaying virtual reality content in the context of visual resources
Media Preservation: A Case Study
No full textThis article is an overview of methods used to preserve content on video tapes which have mold build-up
The Baby and the Bath Water: Reassessing Analog Slides
No full textThe curator of Sonoma State University's Art and Art History Department Image Collection describes her strategy for preserving unique and original images that document local history while preparing for the eventual disposition of 150,000 35mm slides acquired over 45 years in support the department's curriculum. She is ferreting out the collection's original photography of exhibitions and installations and work by faculty and other local artists that demonstrate the vibrant culture history of Northern California and seeking permission from the artists to display images of their work
Rethinking Visual Resources Centers in the Digital Age: Case Studies at the University of Georgia and the University of Michigan
No full textVisual Resource Centers are facing many challenges—and opportunities—in the wake of the digital era. Since their beginnings as slide libraries, many VRCs have had missions across college campuses to serve the image needs of faculty in art-related fields. More recently, visual resources professionals have guided faculty and other colleagues into the digital era by providing digitization services and support. But as faculty and other clientele have become more tech-savvy over the years, and as high quality art images have become more readily available than ever before, the fate of VRCs and similar departments is at risk. In order to stay in business, VRCs need to stay relevant. Fortunately, the digital age has also extended itself into countless new opportunities for visual resource professionals, not only in allowing for new means of collaboration, but also in freeing up time for extended outreach and education efforts. This article presents various outreach and collaboration initiatives taken by the Visual Resources Center at the Lamar Dodd School of Art within the University of Georgia, and the Visual Resources Collections within the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan
Growing New Professionals through Mentorship: A Two Way Street
No full textParticipating in Mentoring Programs, such as the VRA Mentoring Program, can be satisfying and beneficial to both parties involved. Tips for a successful mentoring partnership can be found in this presentation from the VRA/ARLIS Joint Conference, 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Special Bulletin #12: Subject Classification for Visual Collections: An Inventory of Some of the Principal Systems Applied to Content Description in Images
No full textWith the harnessing of the computer for image access, numerous developments have taken place in the field of subject analysis and access. Early developments in this field relied heavily on bibliographic subject systems such as the Dewey, Sears, and Library of Congress Subject Headings Lists and attempted to apply what were essentially classification systems for text to images...With few models on which to base their systems, numerous independent and project-related subject classification systems developed...Despite the creation of numerous subject classification systems, there are few publications on their structure or format...The nearly fifty studies in this report detail either general classification systems or those specific to an individual project. Brief descriptions are given of each of the systems together with relevant references
VRAB Volume 6: Issue 2, 1979
No full textThis issue begins by introducing upcoming conferences and presents more conference reports from the membership. A summary of guide-updates is followed by "Ask the Photographer." This issue's profile features the Visual Resources Collection of the Fine Art Department at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
VRAB Volume 5: Issue 2, 1978
No full textThis issue features a number of professionally relevant updates and notes ranging from best practice to recent job vacancies. There is also a detailed overview of slide care practices as well as slide market news