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Please excuse cross-postings. Please forward this invite to interested parties. ------------------------------ Hi everybody! The Visual Resources Collection/Slide Library at the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford is pleased to host the VRA-Northern California chapter, ARLIS-Northern California chapter, and the Museum Computer Network California chapter joint meetings on Friday, November 15th. The highlight of this meeting is a presentation of LUNA Insight by David Rumsey, President of Cartography Associates, San Francisco, and Director of Luna Imaging, Los Angeles.: The Digital Image Database: A New and Powerful Tool for Libraries and Museums This presentation will show how new developments in database software have greatly expanded the uses of digital image databases for Libraries and Museums. With these new tools, image databases can be used for e-learning, exhibitions and lectures, scholarly research and collaboration, and collection management and development. The speaker will demonstrate these concepts using the online AMICO Library, and art image database of over 100,000 objects that he is distributing for a consortium of major North American and European museums, http://www.amico.org, as well as images from the award winning David Rumsey Historical Map Collection,http://www.davidrumsey.com, which contains more than 1.5 terabytes of visual information. Software demonstrated will include Insight by Luna Imaging, ArcGIS by ESRI, search visualization tools, image watermarking by Digilock, and others. Sharing, combining and cross searching of online databases from different institutions is now possible and will be demonstrated, showing how we can combine materials from the above two databases with databases from universities such as Yale and Stanford. Also discussed will be the development of online shared archives such as the Open Archives Initiative, integrating image databases into Library online catalogs, opening database structure to commercial search engines for greater public access, and future software developments that will enhance the power of librarians and curators to manage these digital resources and fully integrate them into the goals and programs of their institutions. ********** Schedule 9:00 - 9:30 Meet & Greet (coffee, tea, juices, donuts and sweat rolls provided) 9:30 - 10:45 Chapter business meetings 11:00 - 1:00 Luna Insight presentation by Glen Worthey (Stanford University Libraries: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/aboutinsight.html) and David Rumsey (David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com). 1:00 - 2:00 Business lunch (box lunch costs approximately $11; includes sandwich, salad, dessert and drink), including LUNA discussion, summaries of the morning meetings, and remaining business. 2:00 - 2:30 Tour of Art Library OR continuation of business 3:00 - 4:00 Tour of the Cantor Center(http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUMA/) and "Stone River", Andy Goldworthy's new sculpture on campus (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/january23/goldsworthy-123.html) 4:30 - 5:30 Tour of the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden (http://www.stanford.edu/~mjpeters/png/) ********** What do you need to do? To attend this meeting, you must send an email to Corey Schultz ([log in to unmask]) by November 1, 2002. Include the following information: Name: Institution: Mailing address: Email: Phone: Member of ARLIS, VRA, or MCN: In order to book the facilities, please answer the following questions: Will you be attending: 1. The "Meet & Greet"? (yes/no) 2. Business meetings? (ARLIS or VRA or MCN) 3. Luna Insight demonstration? (yes/no) 4. Tour of the Stanford Fine Arts Library? (yes/no) 5. Tour of the Cantor Center? (yes/no) 6. Tour of the New Guinea Sculpture Garden? (yes/no) Do you need a parking permit? ($3.50 charge) (yes/no) Would you like to purchase a box lunch? (approx. $11.00; I will email the sandwich choices available near the end of October) (yes/no) If you are a VRA-NC member, please subscribe to our new listserv. Send an email to [log in to unmask] and type in the body of the email: subscribe vra-northca ********** Other General information about visiting Stanford can be found in the "Stanford Visitors Guide", available at: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/neighbors/visiting/index.html Coming exhibitions at the Cantor Center (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUMA/) include: Sept 18 - Dec. 29: Salviati at Stanford: Venetian Glass of the 1890s Oct. 9 - Jan 12: Distinctly American: The Photographs of Wright Morris ********** If you have other questions, please do not hesitate to contact me! Corey Schultz -- --------------------------------- Corey Schultz Visual Resources Manager Department of Art & Art History Stanford University Tel: (650) 723-3320 Fax: (650) 725-0140