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VRA-NC Meeting: December 12, 2003: UC Berkeley
VRA/ARLIS Joint meeting
Hosted by: Elizabeth Byrne
Attending: Sugene Yang, Margaret Kendrick, Maryly Snow, Trudy Levy, Howard Brainen, Karen Kessel, Nina Hagiwara, Larissa Brookes, Shawn Calhoun, Marika Wolfe, Roger Rose, Willy Franklin, Sarah Holm, Kathleen Hardin, Jan Eklund, Victoria Bradshaw, Chris Orr, Nancy Olexo, Nathalie Senecal, Jason Miller, Corey Schultz, Andree LeBourveau, Wendy Welker, Lisa Velarde, Linda Treffinger, Ying Zhu
Business Meeting
Meeting minutes from May 2, 2003 meeting approved.
Announcements:
- VRA
National Conference,
March 9-13, 2004, Portland, Oregon.
- Trudy Levy will give a full day workshop.
- Maryly Snow will be on the "Ask the experts" panel.
- 2. ARLIS National conference, April 15-20, 2004, NYC.
- Summer VRA Institute: "Slide Camp", Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Bylaw
changes, by Marika
Wolfe
Suggested
revisions in italics.
There was a discussion about the paragraph on charging additional fees
for special projects. It was decided that the paragraph should move to
Section VI (Meetings).
Treasurer's
report:
$515.60 in account
$50.00 donation
to VRA national conference, Tansy award.
The Spring 2004 meeting will be held in early May at UC Santa Cruz. Andree LeBourveau suggested a tour of the new horticultural building. Car-pools will have to be arranged for those who don't drive.
Maryly suggested raising money to support members who might want to attend the VRA summer institute.
Presentations:
"Digital
Library Building Blocks: An Update", by Mary Elings, UCB Bancroft
Library
Mary's
presentation focused
on the development and implementation of metadata standards being used
by the California Digital Library and the Online Archive of California
(OAC).
"California
Digital Library
Image Service Project", Robin Chandler, Digital Content Coordinator,
CDL.
Robin is the
manager of
the Online Archive of California (OAC). The California Digital Library
is working to develop and acquire access to digital collections. They
are
using LUNA Insight as their platform of choice.
"Demonstration of Digital Asset Management Database (DAMD)", Jason Baker, Digital Media Developer, UCB Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
The Digital Asset Management Database (DAMD) is based on Filemaker Pro, and is used to manage digital assets and manage workflow. It exports EAD (for single items with metadata), MOA2 (for longer documents, books), and is projected to export METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) in Februrary 2004. The software is free, available by emailing Jason. He'll burn you a CD, which will work on a Mac or PC. It is easy to import your own content management system into DAMD. It can be mapped to batch input.
Break for lunch.
Afternoon tours of the Environmental Design Library and Archives and the Architecture Visual Resources Library.
3:30 on:
Tours of Berkeley
Art Museum or Phoebe Hearst Anthropology Museum.
