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 Catalogue" 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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http://www.vraweb.org
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