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SPRING MEETING: February 21-22, 2008 / Dallas, Texas

Image courtesy the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau

The VRA Texas chapter will be meeting in conjunction with the annual conference of the College Art Association in Dallas. The program will feature a business meeting, an Ask-the-Expert roundtable on the campus of Southern Methodist University featuring Susan Jane Williams of Archivision, a social gathering, and a metadata-creation workshop led by CCO co-author Elisa Lanzi of Smith College to be held at the Dallas Museum of Art. [Note: this agenda is independent of CAA and will not be accessible via their conference Web site.]

Hotel Information
A special rate has been procured for meeting attendees in Dallas' Oak Lawn district at the Warwick Melrose Hotel:

• $159 single/double occupancy (plus local taxes: 6% state and 9% occupancy)
• Call 214-521-5151 to make your reservation and identify your group as "VRA Texas."
• Please note: All reservations must be guaranteed with a major credit card prior to the cut-off date of February 6, 2008.

Agenda

• Thursday, February 21 (on or near the campus of Southern Methodist University)
  • 3:00-4:00 pm: Chapter business meeting
  • 4:00-5:00 pm: Ask the Expert roundtable with XML presentation (PPT, 1.6MB) by Susan Jane Williams
  • 5:00-6:30 pm: Social gathering at Trinity Hall Irish Pub
• Friday, February 22 (Boardroom, Dallas Museum of Art--location and parking directions; parking is free to workshop attendees--security will have a list of names, say that you are attending a workshop hosted by Jacqui Allen from the library)
  • 9:00 am-4:00 pm: CCO Metadata workshop (PPT file, 15MB)
    Instructor: Elisa Lanzi, Director, Imaging Center, Smith College and co-chair, VRA CCO committee
    
    This workshop offers an opportunity for participants to learn about creating quality, shareable metadata using the Cataloging Cultural Objects guidelines. The day-long workshop will feature real-life examples, presentations, exercises, and moderated group discussions.
    
    The agenda includes:
  1. Basic CCO Principles, including workflow and metadata standards for image collections;
  2. Practice, including hands-on exercises, breakout groups working on work/image decisions and controlled vocabularies; and
  3. Demonstrations of practice (e.g., examples that show CCO concepts in metadata creation and in user interfaces.)

  For the final segment of the workshop, participants are encouraged to suggest a related topic as a candidate for workshop exploration. Examples might include: specific cataloging conundrums, personal collections metadata, image searching, visual literacy, etc. The instructor will select one or two issues, time permitting. The workshop is for anyone working in the context of image collections, museum collections, and library special collections.

  Report cited by workshop leader Ms. Lanzi: NITLE/Green survey, http://www.academiccommons.org/imagereport.

Registration Form (PDF)

Details, directions, etc., to follow. Thanks for your interest in the VRA Texas Chapter--see you in Dallas!

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