The Visual Resources Association is pleased to announce that three
additional chapters are now available on the Web site for
"Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works
and their Images, " known as CCO at
http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html. These three new chapters
address Physical Characteristics (Chapter 3), Stylistic and
Chronological Characteristics (Chapter 4) and Description (Chapter 8).
Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO) is a VRA-supported project
designed to promote good descriptive cataloging, shared
documentation, and enhanced end-user access. Based on the core data
elements found in the VRA Core 3.0 and the CDWA structures, CCO
provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used
to populate catalogue records.
Along with the three new chapters, the CCO Web site includes
information about the project, a table of contents, and four other
chapters (Object Naming, Maker Information, Class, and View
Description) from the "How to Catalogue" section of the guide. Two
additional chapters, and an extensive Introduction, will be added to
the site by the end of the year.
In addition to sharing our work, the purpose of the web site is to
solicit feedback from you, the cataloguing community, before the CCO
guide is published as a print publication. Ann Whiteside, Chair of
the VRA Data Standards Committee, is the main contact for the Project
and feedback. You can e-mail her via the Feedback link on the home
page of the site.
Please note that the Web content has not had a full copy edit, but we
wanted to get these guidelines to the community so that the
cataloguing practitioners can start testing their applicability. As
you can imagine, CCO is the culmination of years of theory and
practice from the community. The project team has strived to
recommend the best of that practice. We are looking forward to
getting your feedback on this important project.
Elisa Lanzi
President, Visual Resources Association
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