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VRAB Volume 37, Issue 2
No full textAssociation News
New Challenges, New Directions
A Strategy for the Future: Campus Collaborations
Evolution of a Digital Collaboration: California's Local History
Madison Digital Image Database 3
Implementing CollectiveAccess at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University Archive
SAHARA: Innovation, Experimentation, and Collaboration for Digital Image Scholarship
It's Everywhere You Want to Be: Facility Conversion for the Digital Age
University of California, San Diego, Arts Library Renovatio
Statement of Solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Community
No full textThe VRA Executive Board and Equitable Action Committee stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the field of visual resources and beyond. It is critical that white people recognize that the United States was founded in white supremacy, and that anti-AAPI racism and violence are one painful part of our legacy. We must learn from the past, acknowledge what is going on today, and collectively act to bring about change for a better tomorrow. Anti-racist practices need to be embedded in visual resource work, as well, including but not limited to anti-racist hiring and retention practices, collections development, cataloging and description, curation, and programming and outreach.
The VRA Executive Board sincerely thanks the members of the VRA Equitable Action Committee for articulating such a difficult message and providing actionable measures we can take as a community and individuals
VRAB Volume 36, Issue 3: VRA Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference, Part I
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2009 Annual Conference Reports and Awards
Feature Articles
2009 Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC): Facilities Planning for the Digital Visual Resources Center of the Future
Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institution
The Perils of Complexity: A Multi-Stage Study to Determine Necessary Images for Digitized Scrapbook Representation
No full textThe digitization of scrapbooks is a common challenge faced by digitization practitioners. Unlike more standard bound works, scrapbooks are highly complex with multiple moving parts and numerous special features. As such, determining digitization standards that will hold across all manner of scrapbook collections and will accurately represent their unique elements in an understandable way in a digital environment can be problematic. The researchers at the University of North Texas (UNT) conducted on a multi-stage project to examine current practices and gain user perspectives on the images needed for optimal scrapbook representation in a digital library. The results from their work have enabled the implementation of clear guidelines on scrapbook digitization at their institution that can be applied throughout the field
On Born Digital Artwork, New Drawing Applications, and New Opportunities: The case for preserving time-lapse in Procreate and Clip Studio Paint
No full textMost scholarship surrounding digital art has focused upon established artists whose work is already being preserved; their value canonized either by inclusion in museum collections or digital repositories like Rhizome. Scholars tend to focus upon “complex digital artworks” like net art, time-based media, and electronic art, but these are only part of the larger ecosystem of born-digital artwork. A growing, major genre of digital art is drawings, paintings, and comics—often which are produced by younger, independent, and freelance artists who have amassed large followings on social media but have yet to garner the attention of museums. The cultural value of digital drawings and comics is evidenced by their popularity on social media (which can be interpreted as larger public interest), necessitating their preservation. This article is intended as a brief introduction to Procreate and Clip Studio Paint, providing comparisons of their features in respect to Adobe Photoshop, which has long been the industry standard in creative fields. Many scholars have expressed concerns about the complexity of preserving born-digital artwork and the contextual files that document its creation; however, this process may be simplified by taking advantage of newly introduced features in Procreate and Clip Studio Paint.
Please note: as a work by a federal employee, this article is in the public domain (CC0)
A Critical Response to “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, Published in "Big Data and Society"
No full textThis is a gut-reaction response to the recent article “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, published in Big Data and Society on April 6, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165. I want to emphasize that this is an opinion piece and I therefore take a very relaxed tone, which I hope will translate into further discussion with colleagues on these complex topics. So, if you have read any of my other academic work, this will not be quite as polished. Please read on as if we were having a conversation
VRAB Volume 37, Issue 1: VRA Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference, Part II
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VRA 27th Annual Conference, Part II
Session 2: Outside the Canon
Session 4: Engaging New Technologies
Session 5: Issues in Visual Resources Administration
Session 6: Bricks to Bamboo: Cataloging and Photographing the Materials Library
Session 7: Metadata in Action: Leveraging Assets in Core 4 and CCO
Session 9: Training Millennials at Work: Strategies for Training a New Generation
Interest Group: Cataloging
Interest Group: Getty Vocabularies
Interest Group: VRA Digital Matchmaking
User Group: ARTstor
User Group: MDID
User Group: IRI
2021 State of the Visual Resources Association Address
No full textDuring the remote 2021 Annual Business Meeting at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, the president highlighted the accomplishments and challenges of the Association in a state of the association presentation. This article provides the transcript
Using Digital Images for STEAM Education and Discovery Through Fiber Art
No full textThe concept presented in this article proposes using digital images as a pathway to study science, the arts, and technology by way of embroidering enlarged images from illuminated manuscripts. Art galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) can provide this learning opportunity within makerspaces, as a service for users to create patterns for embroidery. Should makerspaces install stations for embroidery pattern creation based on concepts only? Will GLAMs offer more of their local historical images for users based on this method? What will come first, the images to engage users or the demand for historical images from users? This process is a dynamic approach to simultaneously teach some computer/software skills, information literacy including fair use and citation, with digital image use to create artistic derivatives inspired by historical drawings. Based on the author’s own creative experience and promoting this method in conferences and articles, she presents an approach to teach pattern creation in makerspaces as a method of increasing digital image use for the study of STEAM subjects, offering opportunities to reach more users to understand art history, fiber art, digital images, and heighten research skills
2015-2016 Professional Status Task Force Report on Professional Status: 2015-2016 Professional Status Task Force Report
No full textThe 2015 Visual Resources Association (VRA) Survey on Professional Status marks the third investigation of the visual resources profession. In 1996, an ad hoc committee was charged to survey the VRA membership to determine levels of education, years in the profession, institutional rank, salaries, and detailed information on the collections members managed. A second survey was conducted in 2007. The 2007 Professional Status Task Force developed a survey based on the 1999 VRA-ARLIS/NA Professional Status Survey and the 2004 ARLIS/NA Compensation Survey. The concept was to provide VRA with information on professional trends and shifts by comparing the visual resources profession to related disciplines.
In the fall of 2014, the VRA Executive Board appointed a new Professional Status Task Force to undertake a third survey of the profession. The specific charge and more detailed information about the survey methodology will be found in the following sections: 2. Charge and 3. Methodology.
Preliminary results of the survey were presented by the 2015 VRA Professional Status Task Force members Macie Hall and Greg Reser on March 10, 2016 at the annual meeting of the Visual Resources Association in Seattle, Washington.
This report summarizes the data from all of the survey questions. The responses to all of the questions can be found in de-identified form in a PDF of the Qualtrics Report generated from the survey instrument. The Qualtrics Report may be posted on the VRA MemberClicks and on the VRA website along with this final report, as the VRA Executive Board deems appropriate. In addition, the Task Force has asked the VRA Executive Board to archive the Basecamp space used for collaborative work. Documents to be retained include minutes of all meetings and conference calls, reports to the VRA Board, a complete list of survey questions, this report, the Qualtrics report, the PowerPoint presentation to the membership on March 10, 2016, and relevant documents received from the 2007 Professional Status Task Force. The Task Force will also send a print copy of this report to the VRA Archives