For an interesting rundown of projects involved with
electronic imaging you might want to have a look at
a paper from the VALA conference in Australia last
November by Jennifer Durran, Visual Arts Librarian,
Monash University-Clayton campus, Melbourne, Australia
([log in to unmask]): Developments in
Electronic Image Databases for Art History.
 
She visited sites in England, France and the United
States.
 
To obtain the file via gopher, point your client to
Name=VALA Conference Papers
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Library Services
Host=gopher.latrobe.edu.au
 
If the above is beyond your capabilities you might drop
a note to the author asking if she can mail it to you.
 
In the same vein, the VALA papers are an invaluable resource
easily available over the internet. Are any of the upcoming
conferences (CAA, VRA, MCN) planning to put their papers
on-line? I know people *want* to do it but, as far as I
know, nobody is.It would be great to have one site to
go to for all of them for those of us who can't make
the conferences (hello Library of Congress and Smithsonian).
 
While all those dedicated souls are mucking about with
database standards and such this seems like something we
could be doing now that would produce results to wave in front
of the powers that be.
 
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NYU/Museum  Studies          New York, NY 10003
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