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The Executive Board of the Visual Resources Association is pleased to
announce the  appointment of Diane Zorich as Project Manager for the
"Guide to Good Practice: Cataloguing Standards for Describing Cultural
Objects and Images."

The "Guide" will provide a blueprint for using the VRA Core Categories
and other cultural data sets (e.g., the CDWA) in the area of data
content and values. Building on best practices found
throughout the cataloguing communities of museums, image collections,
and libraries, the "Guide" is intended as a hands-on tool for
describing, documenting, and cataloging cultural objects
and their digital surrogates. The first installment of the Guide is
slated for Web publication in February 2003. A full description of the
proposed project can be found on the VRA website http://vraweb.org.  The
"Guide" is a VRA project funded by the Digital Library Federation and
the Getty Grant Program.

In her capacity as Project Manager Ms. Zorich will assume primary
responsibility for coordinating the publication and working with an
advisory group, formed from the above-mentioned communities. Ms. Zorich
will work closely with Guide Editors: Murtha Baca, the Getty;
Elisa Lanzi, Smith College; Linda McRae, University of South Florida,
and Ann Whiteside, University of Virginia.

Diane M. Zorich is an information management consultant for cultural
heritage organizations.  She specializes in planning and managing the
delivery of cultural information, with a particular emphasis on
providing and accessing this information over digital networks.  Her
clients include the J. Paul Getty Trust, Academic Press, The Huntington
Art Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Association of
Museums, and many other cultural organizations and
institutions.

Prior to establishing her consultancy, Ms. Zorich was Data Manager at
the Association of Systematics Collections in Washington, D.C., and
Documentation Manager at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
at Harvard University.  She served as past President and Board Member of
the Museum Computer Network, and currently serves as Chair of this
organization's Intellectual Property SIG.

Ms. Zorich has published and lectured extensively on issues related to
electronic access to cultural information.  She is the author of
Introduction to Managing Digital Assets:  Options for Cultural and
Educational Organizations  (1999, The  J. Paul Getty Trust), and project
manager of A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark  (1999, American
Association of Museums).  She most recently co-edited a special issue on
intellectual property for the Museum Computer Network's journal
,Spectra.. Ms. Zorich holds graduate degrees in anthropology and museum
studies from New York University, and is based in Princeton, NJ.


Elisa Lanzi
Director of Image Collections
Smith College Art Dept.
Bell Hall
Northampton, MA 01063
President-Elect, Visual Resources Association
VOICE: 413.585.3106
FAX: 413.585.3119
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