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CAVRACON at UCSB June 16-17th, 2011

rosemary k. j. davis — Sat, 07 May 2011 12:12:45 +0000

THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTERS OF THE VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION cordially invite you to the California Visual Resources Association Conference, also known as CAVRACON, which will be held Thursday, June 16th and Friday, June 17th, 2011 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/cavraconference/

CaVraCon will provide workshops, presentations and demos dealing with the many aspects of creating, managing and maintaining digital image collections, as well as the opportunity to network with both emerging professionals and veterans of the field.

The conference will be open to any interested parties regardless of organizational or institutional affiliation. Check the above site for registration information.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Patricia Harpring (Managing Editor Getty Vocabulary Program)
Developing local authority files for the CCO/CDWA categories and a discussion of CONA

Megan Marler (ArtSTOR, Senior Analyst for Strategic Initiatives)
ArtSTOR?s Shared Shelf

George Helfand (Luna Imaging, Inc., Account Manager)
Expanding Your Scope: A Workflow for Adding Books to a Digital Image Collection

Greg Reser (UCSD, Metadata Specialist) and Sheryl Frisch (CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, Visual Resource Specialist)
The VRA Custom XMP Info Panel: How do I use it?

Jan Eklund (UC Berkeley, Business Systems Analyst, IST Data Services) and Chris Hoffman (UC Berkeley, Manager of Informatics Services, IST Data Services)
Deploying CollectionSpace for a VR Collection

Tom Moon (UCSB Library, Digitization Unit Manager)
Structuring Workflows: implementing new procedures without disruption

Lois McLean and Rick Tessman (McLean Media, Content Clips)
Content Clips, An Online Tool for Teaching with Digital Images

Dr. James Bartholomay Kiracofe (Director, Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History)
Images for Education, On the road with an academic photographer

As well as a Plenary by the Visual Resources Association President, Maureen Burns (IMAGinED Consulting), Case Studies, tours and more!

Things to bring: flip-flops, laptops and business cards.
Please send questions to John Trendler <john.trendler@scrippscollege.edu>
We look forward to seeing you!

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Polaroid’s Death

Bryan Loar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:04:36 +0000

Polaroid will stop making film for Polaroid cameras next year. Just when I was thinking this morning about Charles & Ray Eames’ work for Polaroid.

Washington Post article

Maybe there will be a cult following like lomography.

(image credit: sx70manipulator)

Originally seen @ Zandland

Curious Expeditions’ Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

Bryan Loar — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:14:56 +0000

Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.

To read more & see the collection of images, go to http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html

Better Shoeboxes for Digital Photos PT. 2

Bryan Loar — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:37:12 +0000

One thing about the NYT article that we bookmarked on delicious failed to mention is that Adobe’s Lightbox beta is free up until the end of this month, otherwise it’s $199 at its introductory price (can anyone say “Run on”?)

Anyway, here’s the link – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

Social Software and Images

Carter — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:39:49 +0000

Steven Cohen at Library Stuff recently blogged about mypictr. While being really useful for users of social software, this could also be convenient for anyone with a VR blog. Talk about easy cropping!