Resources

General Reference and Administrative
Intellectual Property Rights/Copyright
Cataloging and Data Management
Digital Collections and Collection Development
Education and Professional Development

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General Reference and Administrative

• VRA White Paper: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational
  and Cultural Institutions (2009)
• Criteria for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resources Professionals (2002)
• Core Competencies for Visual Resources Management (Iyer 2007)
• ARLIS/NA Core Competencies for Art Information Professionals
• Professional Status Survey 2007
• VRA-ARLIS/NA Professional Status Survey 1999
  
• ARLIS/NA Compensation Survey 2004
• Visual Resources Facilities (Battey 2000)
  
• ARLIS/NA VRD Visual Media News
• Types of VRA Travel Awards
• Travel Award Rules and Guidelines
• Tips for Completing Your Travel Award Application
• Travel Award Recipients Since the Founding of the Program
  
• Visual Resources Documents

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Intellectual Property Rights/Copyright
Intellectual Property Rights Committee

Intellectual Property Rights Resources

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Cataloging, Metadata, and Data Management
Data Standards Committee

• General Information from the VRA
• VRA Data Standards FAQs
• Strategies for Data Migration in the Age of CCO and VRA Core 4.0
• Data Standards/Controlled Vocabularies [VRA]
• Metadata

• Fundamental Standards for VR Cataloging
• VRA Core 4.0
• Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)

• Mapping and Crosswalks
• The Getty Metadata Crosswalk
• MARC and other mappings (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html

• Readings
• Got Metadata?  A presentation on VRA Core 4.0 XML SEI Presentation 2007 (PDF)
• Why Use a Relational Cataloging Tool (J. Eklund) (J. Eklund, 2008 VRA-L)

• Art Cataloging Resources
• ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee http://www.arlisna.org/organization/com/catadv/index.html
• ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee wiki http://arliscac.pbworks.com/ 
• artcataloging.net, including MARC/MARBI and other ALA reports (Clarke)

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Digital Collections and Collection Development
Digital Initiatives Advisory Group

• Online Resources and Software List (S. Williams)
• Relational VR Database Planning Document (S. Williams)
• Labor Costs Per Minute Worksheet [PDF] (S. Williams)
• Asset Management Systems - Data Flow and Use, Simple (S. Williams)
• Asset Management Systems - Data Flow and Use, Complex (S. Williams)
  
• Image User Studies [PDF] (H. Pisciotta)
• Digital Strategic Plan [PDF] (L. Lickteig)
  Note: As a condition for permission to download this digital strategic plan, the document's author, Lynn Lickteig, requires that you send her an e-mail stating that you have downloaded it at the following e-mail address:  vrc@colorado.edu.  Additionally, any exact use in written form of material taken from this plan (whether published or non-published) must give proper credit to the author.
• Resources for Photoshop and Digital Imaging (M. Braunstein)
• Image Providers Directory (D. Beetham)
• Digital Initiatives Advisory Group
• Digital Scene and Heard
• Outreach References (M. Burns and R. Vecchiola)
  A bibliography of articles and materials on building digital image collections and collaborative digital image projects.
• Matchmaking Listserv Archive
• VR Blog List on Delicious (M. Bustillo)

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Education and Professional Development
Education Committee

• Professional Organizations and Associations
• Degrees and Related Programs
• Online Tutorials and Publications
• Courses and Workshops
• Conferences
• The Transitions:
  A Mentoring and Support Group for Professionals in a Transitional Career Phase

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