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Apologies for cross-postings. Some of you may have already known about this but this is the official campus annoucement. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Libraries at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) $612,000 to support the second phase of the Union Catalog for Art Images (UCAI) project based in the UCSD Libraries. The goal of the UCAI project is to develop a union catalog of metadata for art images, which can then be utilized to support copy cataloging and other metadata services in the visual resource community. Unlike other digital image-related projects, the focus of this effort is on image metadata, specifically on developing a robust and efficient mechanism for collecting, sharing, and building relationships between legacy metadata records for images. For the first phase of the project, concluding at the end of 2003, the project team has been developing a prototype database. The team has also developed data mapping to VRA Core 3.0 in XML from the three datasets contributed by phase one partners: Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the Art and Architecture Library at UCSD; converted approximately 750,000 records and loaded them into the prototype system; identified preliminary clustering techniques; developed the concepts of the work unit and the composite record; and identified data standardization needs. The primary goal of the second phase, an 18-month period commencing in January 2004, is to transform the prototype into a production-quality database. This phase will build on and refine the successes of Phase One and transform the prototype into a more mature set of tools capable of supporting key daily cataloging operations. To meet this goal, the project team will begin by focusing on needs assessment for a production environment. In addition, the number of records in UCAI will be expanded through acquisition of additional metadata from Phase One partners and metadata from three new partners: the Visual Resources Center at the University of Minnesota, the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Visual Resource Department at Princeton University. Finally, the team will work on refining existing database processing tools and on creating new ones. The UCAI Web site is at http://gort.ucsd.edu/ucai/ TRISH ROSE Image Metadata Librarian Union Catalog of Art Images (UCAI) Project Geisel Library 0175F UC San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 [log in to unmask] W(858) 822-0611 __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]