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.
