1	Retrieval of cultural heritage materials in the digital realm Ann Whiteside, University of Virginia Trish Rose, University of California, San Diego DLF Forum, October 26, 2004
2	Data standards and efficient retrieval of information Data standards promote consistent recording of information promote data sharing Improve management of content Reduce redundancy of effort Enhance research and retrieval
3	Development of data standards in the cultural heritage communites Data Standards Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) VRA Core categories (2.0 and 3.0) Vocabularies Getty thesauri Art & Architecture Thesaurus Thesaurus of Geographic Names Union List of Artists Names
4	Standards for data content The cultural heritage community has not had content standards AACR does not meet the same needs Early metadata initiatives MESL VISION REACH
5	Cataloging Cultural Objects Visual Resources Association sponsored Developed with funding from DLF, the Getty, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Goals Promote good practice in descriptive cataloging Facilitate shared documentation Enhance end-user access
6	Who will use CCO Museum professionals Visual Resources professionals Librarians Archivists Others who document cultural objects and their images
7	Data content standards Primary emphasis is descriptive metadata Choice of terms used in description Define the order, syntax,and form Other standards referenced Data structure Data values Data communications and interchange standards
8	What kind of materials? Cultural objects Paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, other visual media Architecture Archaeological sites
9	Engaging practitioners Vetting process CCO Advisory Committee Comments solicited from the various communities
10	Outreach Presentations and workshops Formal review program “Community Space” Encourage implementation Identify educational opportunities Act as a voice for the cultural heritage communities
11	CCO can be found at http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html
12	UCAI 101 Goal: develop a shared cataloging resource for the vr community in order to promote the copy cataloging of image metadata A tool for image catalogers Focus is on work and image metadata, not delivery of digital images “Art” is used loosely and meant broadly A proof-of-concept, prototype database The technical infrastructure for a static database of approx. 750,000 records Multi-phase project
13	Clustering records for the same work
14	Impediments to data interoperability weak delineations of work/image definitions inconsistency in cataloging practices within institutions absence of “mature” community descriptive standards.
15	Work/Image definitions & relationships
16	Based on standards & consistently applied "If your content is good, if it is consistent, you have what you need to feed different record formats or different systems. If your content is not based on standards and if your coding of the content is irregular, no record format can save you" ~ Karen Coyle http://www.kcoyle.net/marcdead/marcdead.html
17	Maturity Requires: Time Meets local needs Meets shared cataloging needs Legacy records need to be superceded by records based on standards