Professional Organization: Visual Resources Association

David Green, Knowledge Culture

David Green

http://www.knowledgeculture.com

PhD American Studies, Brown University

Museum Guide to Digital Rights Management, Canadian Heritage Information Network, KnowledgeCulture.com

How digital information and communications technology is changing research and teaching practices within and between disciplines

David Green is Principal at Knowledge Culture, a consultancy offering research services and resources for cultural heritage professionals.

Howard Brainen, Two Cat Digital

Howard Brainen

CEO & Chief Consultant

http://www.twocatdigital.com/consulting.html

BA University of California, Berkeley

Digital Transition consulting projects with various institutions, Digitization of Doug Menuez archive for Stanford University Libraries, Digitization of the American Institute of Architects image collection, Digitization of German homeopathy text: "The Organon" for UC San Francisco

Large scale digitization consulting and production

Howard Brainen is founder, CEO and chief consultant at Two Cat Digital.

Tony White, Pratt Institute

Tony White

Art & Architecture Librarian

MLS, MFA, BA, BA

Steering Committee for the College Book Arts Association, Exhibition research on offset printed artists books, new course research and development.

Information Literacy, Student learning and assessment, Book Arts, Photography, Art Criticism.

Tony White is Assistant Professor and Art & Architecture Librarian at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Edward H. Teague, University of Oregon

Edward H. Teague

Head, Architecture & Allied Arts Library

http://libweb.uoregon.edu

MLS, MA Art History, BFA Art

visual resources, visual literacy, art history

Edward Teague, Head, Architecture & Allied Arts Library, University of Oregon

Elisa Lanzi, Smith College

Elisa Lanzi

Director, Imaging Center

MLS University at Albany

"Cataloging Cultural Objects: A guide to describing cultural works and their images, " a VRA project funded by The Getty Foundation. To be published by the American Library Association in 2006.

metadata, data standards, controlled vocabularies, thesaurus, image cataloging, authority work, museum collection management, visual resources collections

Academic Commons is a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated? Learn more.