This site was frozen in 2004 and is now out of date. Please go to RLG's current Web site for all information. Questions? Contact us.

The VISION Project: Shared Records for Visual Resources

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The VISION project is a collaboration of the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the Getty Information Institute, and the Research Libraries Group. It aims to create standard, online descriptions of slides and photographs of works of art.

The project is described at the VRA Web site, including rosters of working groups and contributors and its value in conjunction with the REACH project. Over the past year, RLG has worked on the infrastructure and interface while VISION participants completed their data entry.

Two important facets of this project should be noted:

• its promulgation of and encouragement to use the VRA's "Core Categories for Visual Resources" for describing visual documents;

• the unique opportunity it provides to integrate and assess the use of several types of visual resources data in a single discovery system.

Participants created VISION records using a Web-based entry form especially designed for the project. VISION and REACH project participants, and external advisors, began evaluating their records in the final quarter of 1998, using the interface designed for The AMICO Library.

For more information about the VISION project, contact:
Ricky Erway, Program Officer, RLG Integrated Information Services (650-691-2228)
or
Elisa Lanzi, Chair, VRA Data Standards Committee, and VISION project coordinator, Lanzi/Warren Associates (802-442-1570).

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Last updated 5/99

This site was frozen in 2004 and is now out of date. Please go to RLG's current Web site for all information. Questions? Contact us.

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