>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>Visual Resources Association Presents 2010 Nancy DeLaurier Award to
>Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring for Their Work on the Getty
>Vocabularies
>
>
>ATLANTA, Georgia (VRA) March 31, 2010 -- The Visual Resources
>Association (VRA), the international organization for image media
>professionals, proudly presented the 2010 Nancy DeLaurier Award to
>Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring for their work on the Getty
>Vocabularies on March 18th at the 28th Annual VRA Conference. The Nancy
>DeLaurier Award, named for one of the pioneers of the Visual Resources
>profession, honors distinguished achievement in the field of image
>management. "Achievement" is measured by immediate impact and may take
>the form of published work, oral presentation, project management,
>software development, technology application, Web site creation, or
>other outstanding effort. Baca and Harpring's efforts encompass all of
>the above categories. Current VRA President, Maureen Burns, stated
>"Letters of support for this nomination poured in from around the world
>showing the global reach of Murtha and Patricia's Herculean efforts and
>further demonstrating how the Getty Vocabularies are truly an
>unparalleled body of work."
>
>The impact of the Getty Vocabularies is enormous in the field of visual
>resources and beyond -- visionary in inception and instrumental to the
>quest of standardizing image cataloging across the cultural heritage
>community. Information professionals in visual resources collections,
>libraries, museums, and archives regularly use the Art and Architecture
>Thesaurus, the Union List of Artist Names, and the Thesaurus of
>Geographic Names, developed, sustained, and nurtured, primarily by these
>two individuals, under the auspices of the Getty Research Institute. The
>Getty Vocabularies not only provide uniform terminology to describe
>works of art, architecture, material culture, and other associated
>materials for metadata creation, but their use enhances access to online
>resources and the knowledge bases researchers rely upon.
>
>In addition to project development and management, Baca and Harpring
>have worked tirelessly to promote free global online access to these
>vocabulary tools, to translate them into many languages, and to assist
>colleagues in better understanding how to use them most effectively.
>Attesting to their ongoing vision of the future in terms of shared
>standards and best practices is their promotion of a new Cultural Object
>Name Authority (CONA) intended to provide authoritative work records
>about cultural objects overcoming linguistic, chronological, and other
>variations in naming. At the awards ceremony, Baca and Harpring
>announced their latest publication, Introduction to Controlled
>Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural
>Works.
>
>Additional Info and Images:
>http://www.vraweb.org/about/awards/award-2010ndla.html
>
>Robb Detlefs, Public Relations & Communications Officer Visual Resources
Association 510-652-8950 x233 http://www.vraweb.org
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Maureen Burns, Ed.D.
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