Suggested Preparatory Readings for SEI 2008

These articles were published in the VRA Bulletin, Spring 07, Volume 34, No. 1 Issue. and are downloadable as pdfs by clicking on the titles.

Why Standards? by Ken Hamma

Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Cultural Heritage Communities by Mary W. Elings & Günter Waibel

Cataloging Cultural Objects: Community Building Through Standards by Elisa Lanzi & Linda McRae

Encoding Works and Images: The Story Behind VRA Core 4.0 by Ben Kessler

CCO Overview and Description by Patricia Harpring

Herding Cats: CCO, XML, and the VRA Core by Janice Eklund

CCO and CDWA Lite: Complementary Data Content and Data Format Standards for Art and Material Culture Information by Murtha Baca