ARLIS Picture This! cataloguing study day, 9 September

The ARLIS Visual Resources Committee and Cataloguing and Classification Committee jointly present a study day aimed at both library cataloguers of print and electronic publications, who need or wish to find out about how to adapt their skills to visual resources, and at ‘ACADIans’, visual resources curators and anyone responsible for the management and discovery of digital images, whether in HE, Art Colleges, Museums, Galleries or Art Collections.

It will explore approaches to the business of cataloguing images, looking at different metadata schemas, data standards & controlled vocabularies & how these have been applied to real life resources including digital image collections, the moving image, art websites, material in digital repositories, and even primary art objects. Speakers include representatives from the museums world, Higher Education & the JISC.

Further information about the event (including the booking form) can be found from this page on the ARLIS website, or contact Clare Hemmings at C.Hemmings@soton.ac.uk

Draft Programme:

Venue: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 16 Bedford Square,
London WC1B 3JA
Date and time: Wednesday 9th September 2009, 10:00am ­ 4:30pm
Cost, including lunch: £85 ARLIS members; £42.50 ARLIS Students/unwaged
£105 Non-ARLIS members; £65 Non-ARLIS Students; £63.75 Retired members

10:00 - 10:20 Registration/Tea and Coffee
10:20 - 10:30 Welcome and Introduction: Vicky Brown, Chair of ARLIS VRC
10:30 - 11:10 Practical Metadata: John Hargreaves (JISC Digital Media Technical Support Officer)
11:10 - 11:50 Sharing new standards: Building a dual-purpose image collection: Sally Forrest (University of Derby)
12:00 - 12:10 Break
12:10 - 12:40 Cataloguing moving images: describing artists' videos with MARC21: Jacqueline Cooke (Goldsmiths, University of London)
12:40 - 13:30 Lunch
13:35 - 15:20 Case studies including: Enhancing VADS ­ enhancing metadata: Marie-Therese Gramstadt (Visual Arts Data Service), Kultur: Andrew Gray (University of the Arts London), V&A Factory Project: Ella Ravilious (Victoria & Albert Museum), Cataloguing computer art: Honor Beddard (Victoria and Albert Museum), Cataloguing visual resources at the Royal College of Art: Neil Parkinson (Royal College of Art)
Intute: Mary Burslem (Intute)
15:20 - 15:50 Tea/Coffee break PLUS discussion
15:50 - 16:20 The ‘Your Paintings' website: strategies for cataloguing oil paintings for web users: Aimee Blackledge (University of Oxford)
16:20 - 16:30 Goodbye / Sum up: Elizabeth James, Chair of ARLIS C&CC
16:30 End