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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Diane M. Zorich
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:22 PM
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Feedback requested: VRA's Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects and their Images


The Visual Resources Association is pleased to announce that select chapters of the VRA-sponsored project, "Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects and their Images, " known as CCO, is now available on the Web at http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html.


Based on the core data elements found in the VRA Core 3.0 and the CDWA structures, CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalog records. CCO is designed to promote good descriptive cataloging, shared documentation, and enhanced end-user access.


The new web site includes information about the CCO project, a table of contents, and four chapters (Object Naming, Maker Information, Class, and View Description) from the "How to Catalog" section of the guide. The CCO editors (Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Linda McRae, Ann Whiteside, and myself) are hard at work preparing the remaining CCO content for the web site by the end of the year. Although most of the remaining content is written, it will not be released until it has been reviewed by the Editors and the CCO Advisory Committee (See http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/credits.htm for a list of  advisory committee members.)


In addition to sharing our work, the purpose of the web site is to solicit feedback from you, the cataloguing community, before the CCO guide is published as a print publication. Ann Whiteside, Chair of the VRA Data Standards Committee, is the main contact for the Project and feedback. You can e-mail her via the Feedback link on the home page of the site.


Please note that the web content has not had a full copy edit, but we wanted to get these guidelines to the community so that the cataloguing practitioners can start testing their applicability. As you can imagine, CCO is the culmination of years of theory and practice from the community. The project team has strived to recommend the best of that practice. We are looking forward to getting your feedback on this important project.


Elisa Lanzi
President, Visual Resources Association
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