Visual Resources Association 2013 Annual Conference

Co-Chairs:
Johanna Bauman, Pratt Institute
Sheryl Frisch, California Polytechnic State University

The Data Standards Committee (DSC) was established in 1993 to meet the visual resources community's growing need to manage complex visual collections in the networked environment. Our charge from the Visual Resources Association is "To develop, advocate and promote standard descriptive practices in visual resources collections that will facilitate the management, organization, and exchange of information."

More specifically our goals are:

• To identify, develop, and disseminate information that promotes standard descriptive practices
• To communicate visual resources interests to public agencies that make policy and commercial vendors who develop tools and resources applicable to visual collections
• To establish liaisons and cooperative exchanges with similar interest groups in the museum, library, and archival communities