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Special Bulletin #11: Guide to Copy Photography for Visual Resources Professionals
No full textIt is not uncommon for visual resources management to involve some photographic production. If these production needs are substantial, the services of a professional photographer may be required. However, where needs are modest, photography may be done by anyone prepared to carry out the task. It is intended that this publication be a guide for equipment and supply purchases, and production procedures for visual resources professionals who do not have access to the services of a professional photographer, or who are themselves not trained photographers. This manual is designed to provide all the information a visual resources professional needs to set up and operate a copystand, and to make photo-reproductions from two-and three-dimensional originals. Not intended as a technical or darkroom manual, this guide emphasizes bare-bones, simple how-to skills
VRAB Volume 6: Issue 3, 1979
No full textThis issue, mislabeled as Volume 6, Number 4, begins with a summary of upcoming conferences, a note from MA-CAA Visual Resources Chair, Nancy Schuller, an update on guides and Patrick Young's recurring column, "Ask the Photographer." This issue's profile covers the Art Institute of Chicago's slide department. The "Types of Collections" column precedes a Professional News section that covers not only vacant positions, but also some regionally-specific breakdowns of university type, salary, degree level of program, number of regular users, and collection size. The issue ends with "Slide Market News" and some subscription information
Seeing Surrogacy: Digital Image Quality & Student Visual Literacy
No full textThis paper expands upon a survey administered to undergraduate art students at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. The survey sought to ascertain if students notice digitization artifacts within digital images and if they can discern whether the flaws are part of the digitization process or inherent in the original. Results from this study indicate that students do not have the training or skills to be able to discern this, and those working within visual resources would benefit from replacing poor quality images with more accurate surrogates of the original. The results of this survey were discussed in a presentation at the Visual Resources Association’s 2019 Annual Conference in Los Angeles
Toolkit to Support the Description of Visual Resources for Accessibility in Arts & Humanities Publications
No full textWith the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the University of Michigan Library and Press have released an online resource designed to advance efforts towards accessible digital publishing in the arts and humanities by supporting the description of visual resources. This article provides an overview of the resource and its particular value for visual resources professionals, arts organizations, editors and authors who wish to make publications more accessible to readers with visual impairments and other print disabilities.
Acknowledgements:
This article was prepared with input from U-M Library Communications and VRA Bulletin Content Editor Maureen Burns
The New Interactive: Reimagining Visual Collections as Immersive Environments
No full textEmerging technologies and shared standards have opened up new avenues for the curation and presentation of data in archives and published research. Among their many benefits, these developments have made collections across archives more accessible, and have vastly improved the visual experience for users. This paper focuses on the next step in applying technical development and standards to digital collections: improving discoverability and providing a visual product that is simultaneously informative and experiential. The cases presented here focus on new approaches in these areas, with an emphasis on the utilization of visual search and discovery across a research archive and the integration of data and image into an augmented reality (AR) experience, with discussion of how these approaches can improve the usability of visual material while broadening the user's experience from the purely visual into the realm of the immersive
2016 State of the Visual Resources Association
No full textDuring the 2016 Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association in Seattle, Washington, the president highlighted the accomplishments and challenges of the Association in a state of the association presentation. This article provides the transcript
VFX librarianship: designing a global asset library for a visual effects studio
No full textThis article is an anecdotal outline of the author's work and experiences creating an asset library at a visual effects studio. It aims to start the conversation about librarianship and visual resource management’s role within film production industries
Diversifying VRC Services within a studio department: The Portfolio Photography Room
No full textWith the changing landscape of visual resources in the past decade, our facility has remained useful to our department by providing relevant services that revolve around imaging. When we noticed a void in the department for students to professionally document the art they were creating, the Visual Resources Center was a natural fit. This article explains the process of establishing this service
FRBR and TMS: Applying a Conceptual Organizational Model for Cataloguing Photographic Archives
No full textThis is an updated version of a paper, “FRBR and TMS: Applying a Conceptual Organizational Model for Cataloguing Photographic Archives,” presented at Collective Imagination 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
In order to manage the visual archive, containing analog photographic material as well as born-digital images, the Worcester Art Museum has been cataloguing images of objects from the permanent collection into the Media Module of TMS following the guidance of several conceptual models of organization. By referencing the digital preservation guidelines of the Digital Curation Center Lifecycle Model (DCC) and conceptual organizational models of the OAIS Reference Model and the Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Reference (FRBR) method of organization, an organizational model was implemented to better assist with the cataloguing to represent digital assets with their analogue parents. This paper looks at the archival cataloguing workflow and areas of CIDOC Conceptual Reference model's application in a collection management system, including advantages in clarity of metadata for analog and born-digital images
Redesigning Visual Resources Facilities for 21st Century Challenges
No full textChanges in our profession have been dramatic over the past ten years, not only in the services we deliver but also in the spaces where we work. In this paper, visual resources professionals from Smith College, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MASSART), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Ithaca College will describe a variety of strategies to repurpose their VR spaces in order to accommodate new challenges in the visual resource field—from complete redesigns to thoughtful reorganization of existing spaces