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
http://www.vraweb.org
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