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Data Standards Committee
In 1993, the Visual Resources Association established the Data Standards Committee (DSC) to meet the visual resources community's growing need to manage complex visual collections in the networked environment. Charged with promoting standards that facilitate the management, organization, and exchange of information, the committee's mission is threefold:
- To identify, develop, and disseminate information that promotes standard descriptive practices
- To communicate visual resources interests to public agencies that make policy and commercial vendors who develop tools and resources applicable to visual collections
- To establish liaisons and cooperative exchanges with similar interest groups in the museum, library, and archival communities
The Data Standards Committee meets annually at the VRA conference and conducts business via a committee listserv during the rest of the year. In addition to the creation of the Core Categories for Visual Resources, the committee's work includes the development and sponsorship of VRA conference sessions, publication of articles, and participation on panels at related conferences. In June 1996, the DSC urged the VRA Board to petition the Library of Congress for representation on the USMARC Advisory Committee. The request was granted by LC and the current VRA representative, Sherman Clarke, attended his first meeting in February 1997. To contact the DSC email datastandards@vraweb.org
Co-Chairs:
Johanna Bauman, ARTstor
Trish Rose-Sandler, University of California, San Diego
Members:
Mary S. Alexander, University of Alabama Libraries
Robert Carter, The University of Texas at Austin
Sherman Clarke, New York University
William S. Connor, Harvard University (Consultant)
Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Yale Center for British Art (Consultant)
Jodie Double, University of Minnesota
Jan Eklund, University of California, Berkeley
Denise Hattwig, University of Washington/Bothell
Benjamin R. Kessler, Chicago, IL (Consultant)
Geoff Laycock, A Foundation
Margaret N. Webster, Cornell University
Krista White, Drew University
Ann Whiteside, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Consultant)
Susan Jane Williams, Independent Cataloging & Consulting Services
VRA Board Liaison:
Brian Shelburne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
