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    Workshops for Exhibition Curators


November 11-13, 2014

The 2014-2015 exhibition season is upon us! As the selected curators for this season, you will be the stewards of your given topics: responsible for researching, selecting, describing, and designing your portion of the overall exhibition in the coming year. This three-day workshop series will aim to familiarize you with a few tools that will help us track and manage digital description. This will help to streamline our process and allow us to have a single, updated point of reference for all metadata edits and changes in the coming year.
These workshops will not presuppose any prior XML or markup knowledge.
#Schedule:

Schedule is subject to change

Workshop I: Intro to Github


UPDATED TIME AND LOCATION:
Peabody Library, Classroom 304 (Learning Commons) Central Library, Classroom 418A
Tuesday, November 11 / with Ramona Romero
10:00 am - 12:00 pm 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Curators: sign-up with Github & email username to Ramona prior to workshop


Workshop II: Writing and Editing XML


Central Library, Classroom 418A
Wednesday, November 12 / with Cliff Anderson

10:00 | What is XML?
10:15 | Using oXygen XML Editor
10:45 | DTDs, Schemas, etc.
11:15 | Break
11:25 | Standards & VRA Core 4.0
11:45 | Encoding exercise


Workshop III: VRA Core & Exhibition Requirements


Central Library, Classroom 418A
Thursday, November 13 / with Sara Sterkenburg

10:00 | Review yesterday's encoding exercise
10:15 | A deeper look at VRA Core 4.0

Searching & using controlled vocabs
Encoding Practice
Homework


11:15 | Break
11:25 | A look at the Exhibitions repo on Github

Review metadata requirements for exhibition


12:00 | Questions & Wrap-up


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    #Workshop Links
Github


Markdown for Github

###VRA Core
VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. The exhibitions program at Vanderbilt University Libraries specifically utilizes version 4.0, which was published in 2007. Under its specifications, two record components are necessary for a digitized asset: one describing the original work (work record), and one representing a digitized version and its properties (image record). This allows us to separate digital surrogates and edit/migrate them over time without altering any information about the original piece.
The Library of Congress maintains the VRA Core standard in association with the Visual Resources Association (VRA). This document provides an easily digestible introduction to the standard. The Element Outline is a quick resource for referencing the elements of VRA Core, and which sub-elements each can hold. Most are repeatable. The XML version of the VRA Core schema, which we'll be using during our workshops, can be found here.

  
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    Encoding Practice

###Group Practice

The above image is a digitial surrogate from steinlen.net that looks very different from another digital surrogate of the same work from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (deaccessioned in 1991). This illustrates why it's so important to have separate metadata describing digitized images within catalog records for any given work or artifact.
Now let's take a look at the VRA Core 4.0 XML for this poster.

Thoughts? Anything unexpected you see or that you would have done differently?
Take a look at both the work record and the image record within this XML document
This is how users would see it.

###In Pairs
In teams of two, please break off and take a look at the links below. Try to encode these materials on your own. No peeking at any raw XML!

Medal of Emperor Rudolf II, J. Paul Getty Museum Online Collections

Fuller record here


Conservation of Hagia Sophia mosaics, Istanbul, 1931-1964. Sanctuary, apse conch (during restoration), Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks

###Homework
On your own, encode this photograph of Hodge Kirnon via the Metropolitan Museum of Art's (MET) Online Collection

Use the existing record at the MET for information, and catalog it in VRA Core within oXygen
Save your results under your Github account, titling your file "HodgeKirnon_yourusername" and comment on this page with the URL to your file by November 20th.

Sara will take a look and provide feedback. Thanks!