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Cultural Objects Digitization Planning: Metadata Overview
No full textThis document offers an overview of image metadata types, applications, and best practice considerations for planning cultural object digitization projects
Special Bulletin #7: Disaster Planning for Visual Resources Collections
No full textWhile there has already been much written on disaster planning, including guidelines for libraries and museums, personal safety, and there are far more sophisticated publications on film conservation, the purpose of this bulletin is to provide a concise guide for visual resource curators, especially those outside of the library setting, or those at institutions where there are no published emergency guidelines. Most visual resource collections have long-established procedures to assure a smoothly run routine; but there are occasionally those events that can turn even the most organized operation upside down. Hopefully this guide will provide a source to which to turn should the unthinkable happen
VRAB Volume 9: Issue 1, 1982
No full textIn this issue:
CAA:
Images for Today's Classrooms:
The Microform Image: Facsimile, Substitute, or Counterfeit?
The Impact of Videodisc Technology on Teaching Art History
Holography as a New Visual Medium
Art Documentation: From Slides to Microcomputers:
Photographing Architecture
Slide Production and Presentation Techniques in Architectural Analysis and History
The Proposed Computerisation of the Institute of Fine Arts Slide and Photo Collection
CAA-VR Business Meeting
ARLIS:
Special Problems in Slide Classification: Non-Western Art
Utilization of Microforms as Research Resources in the Fine Arts Library:
Using Microforms in Teaching and Research
Standardization and Bibliographic Control of Art Micrographics
Microforms and User Interface: Question of Cognitive Style in Art Historical Research
Microforms and the Image Bank
Choosing Collections: The Publisher's Perspective
Designing Microforms for the User
VR Organization Questionnaire:
Ballot
Editorial on the VR Organization
Consultation Service
ARLIS/Northwest
Standard for Staffing Fine Arts Slide Collections and CAA Board Resolution To Be Published Soon
Conferences to Come:
1982 MACAA-VR Program: A Call for Papers and Volunteers
SECAC 1982 Conference: Visual Resource Curators Session
Call for Papers - 1983 CAA Meeting Regular Program
International Art History Conference
Bibliography Workshop
Missouri-Kansas Slide Curators
Profile:
Princeton University School of Architecture Slide Collection
Ask the Photographer:
New Equipment for Slide Duplication and for Copy Photography
Academic Slide Budget Survey
Work-Study Program To Be Cut
Slide Labeling by Word Processing
Image Access Society
Conservation:
Chemical Streaking on Film: How to Avoid It
Photographic Journals
Classification & Cataloging:
The Classification and Cataloging of Slides and Pictures
Professional News
Positions Open
Slide Market News
Duplicating for Student Study: Copyright Infringement:
Survey
Group Ordering for Multiple Copies
Inuit (Eskimo) Cataloguing
35mm Slide Projector for sal
Shoot First and Ask Questions Later! A Social Media Strategy for Building a Wine Label Database
No full textOur collaboration with the University of California Davis to provide cost effective high resolution / high quality digitizing services for their unique social media / crowd sourcing website to build a research database.
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Peter Brantley, Director of Online Strategy at the UC Davis Library, and Amy Azzarito, the product manager for "Label This.
Information as Capital: The Commodification of Archives and Library Labor
No full textThis paper explores the commodification of archival information through the exploitation of library labor related to the ongoing management, preservation, description, and digitization of unique and rare materials. Through this discussion, the author highlights the cultural, social, and economic factors that play a central role in creating an ideal environment for the sale and distribution of public information by commercial vendors. The result of this commodification is a reclassification of library labor from what Marx defines as “unproductive” to “productive” labor, which the author demonstrates through a case study at her own institution. Finally, the author provides recommendations for maintaining core values and open access to information as a public good, while still participating in the market structures in which libraries and cultural heritage institutions are entrenched
Heritage Seeds: Preserving a Scholar-Photographer's Legacy Slides in a Digital Environment
No full textAs thousands of Baby Boomer-era faculty members near retirement, many who have taught in disciplines such as art history and visual studies are considering what to do with their 35mm slide collections. This case study of a two-year collaboration between an art and architectural history professor and a visual resources curator outlines some of the choices to be made, and potential problems to avoid, in deciding whether to accept the donation of a faculty slide collection. It underscores the crucial importance of the scholar's willingness to provide cataloging information, and, if possible, to participate directly in the cataloging process.
Acknowledgements:
Dr. Philip Larson has recently retired after 37 years teaching art and architectural history at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, before which he was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He holds his doctorate in Art History from Columbia University. He also maintains an active studio practice, executing commissioned designs and architectural décor in a wide range of media for public and private buildings throughout the Midwest
Cataloging in the Cloud: Shared Shelf and ArchaeoCore
No full textCloud- based image cataloging and file management offers many potential benefits in terms of saved resources, ease of access, and security of assets. In addition, the potential for collaborative work is vast. With a cloud-based system it is possible for different institutions to collaborate to develop a shared set of fields for a specific discipline that will contextualize data, promote sharing, and enrich teaching and research. Another benefit of a shared system is the ability of researchers to contribute images and data where the research is taking place.
Shared Shelf’s metadata management tool provides such a platform for collaboration. The University of Virginia is using Shared Shelf to develop a new metadata standard for archaeology, one that we hope will be universally applicable to the different areas of the discipline. ArchaeoCore, as this working model is known, will provide a structure to carry the context with the object. This effort, while still a work in progress, has already provided valuable insights into the organization and expression of specialized data. It offers helpful perspectives in the creation of projects in other academic disciplines and will provide a conceptual model for legacy collections
Visual Resources Curators Affiliate Organization: 24 Years of Active Involvement in SECAC
No full textA version of this article was originally published in The Southeastern College Art Conference Review 15/2 (2007), pp. 129-147 under the title "Recollections of SECAC." This article is reprinted here in a revised form by permission of the Southeastern College Art Conference Review. A look back on the history, growth, and impact of the VRC involvement in SECAC and the effect collaborative professional activity has had both in the southeastern region and nationally
Welcome to the electronic VRA Bulletin (e-VRAB): Editors' Welcome
No full textThe editors of the inaugural issue of the electronic VRA Bulletin (v. 38, n. 1) welcome the VRA membership to the new publishing platform of the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
Special Bulletin #15: Finding and Cataloging Images of Native American Art
No full textThe purpose of this special bulletin on Native American art is to provide sources for images that express Native American culture for use in teaching and lecturing and reference materials that will make it possible to identify, describe and catalog the works accurately and consistently. The components include a general chronology with a list of major sites and styles that distinguish each geographic region with accompanying maps, some general principles that illuminate the imagery employed, and a suggested core list of visual resource components for an introductory survey course in Native American art and culture. The bulletin aims to be useful to those curators who have little or no background in the subject, as well as those who have already developed collections of images of Native American art...Native American art features many animal images and non-objective patterns. Many of the objects that we might label as art have ceremonial functions, which can be referenced if we can recognize them. I have included reference sources that will lead the cataloger to this kind of information. Some of the terms used to describe Native American cultures, styles, places, and objects are found in the Getty Vocabularies, but many others are not, as yet