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Thursday, December 18, 2014

*Visual Resources Association Foundation Announces 2014 Project Grant
Winners*

The Board of Directors of the Visual Resources Association Foundation is
pleased to announce the presentation of its 2014 VRAF Project Grants to
Matthias Arnold, University of Heidelberg, and Krystle Kelley, University
of Colorado Boulder. The amount of each award is $1500.

Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg Research Architecture, University of
Heidelberg, will use the award to support the development of the VRA Core 4
XML Transform Tool. This tool will enable any user who can supply
descriptive image metadata in a standardized CSV form (comma separated
values, e.g. via Excel) to create validating VRA Core 4 XML. Useful on its
own, this XML also represents an important step for further transformations
to other XML schemas, like RDF to support output of data as LOD (Linked
Open Data). The tool is being developed in consultation with both the VRA
Data Standards and the Core OC Committees, will be shared with the image
management community during beta-testing for feedback, and will be
open-source and freely available upon completion. Susan Jane Williams
(Independent Cataloging and Consulting Services) will serve as coordinator
for the mapping templates and will help create documentation,
demonstrations (sample records and mappings), and further mapping help in
use of the tool. We are confident that this tool will have broad value and
impact within the visual resources community, and for the VRA Core 4
standard.



Krystle Kelley, M.A. student in Art History at the University of Colorado
Boulder, will use the award to support a pilot project to digitize and make
broadly accessible 500 images that highlight the extraordinary depth and
breadth of the 30,000 Ronald M. Bernier Image Archive. The particular
strength of this archive is in the cultures of Nepal, India, Tibet, and
Southeast Asia, and in its emphasis on documentation of less studied
indigenous traditions, notoriously difficult to access countries and sites,
and sites and works that are now in peril or have now disappeared
altogether.

The project aims to provide broad, public access to a unique, incredibly
valuable archive, and do so at the highest standard. As the project
evolves, members of the scholarly community at the University of Colorado
Boulder and beyond will be consulted to contribute metadata, providing the
project with a crowdsourcing element that could serve as a model for others
who are trying to grapple with important—but minimally
described—collections. Krystle has assembled an excellent project team at
the University of Colorado Boulder, including an Art History faculty
member, and Elaine Paul and Lia Pileggi from the Visual Resources Center.
We anticipate that the project will lead to a resource that will be of
lasting value to scholars and image management professionals, as well as to
the broader general public.



The purpose of the VRA Foundation’s Project Grant is to provide support for
projects in the field of visual resources and image management.  Please
visit vrafoundation.org for more information.

The mission of the VRA Foundation is to advance knowledge in the field of
visual resources and image management and to provide educational and
training opportunities in support of broad access to cultural information
in the digital age. The Foundation advances awareness of important issues
for digital information management; encourages the application of
professional standards, innovative technology, and metadata cataloging
protocols; facilitates workplace training; and promotes awareness of
intellectual property rights and copyright issues. The VRA Foundation
supports a range of educational offerings to help ensure that such
information reaches a diverse and global audience.


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