Save these Dates: 2018-2019 VRAF Regional Workshops Schedule
The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce the host sites for the 2018-2019 VRAF Regional Workshop Program. Now in its fourth year, and thanks to the continued and generous support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this program is allowing the VRAF to realize its mission to promote scholarship, research, education, and outreach in the fields of visual resources and image management.The 2018-2019 workshops are:Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, to be held on November 30, 2018Something Mappy This Way Comes: An Introduction to Digital Mapping Technologies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, to be held on January 25, 2019.Exhibit, Instruct, Promote, Collaborate: An Introduction to Omeka for Digital Scholarship at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, to be held on March 1, 2019.Metadata and Management of Cultural Heritage Digital Media: From Fundamentals to Future Trends at The Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler, Washington, D.C., to be held on April 26, 2019.With the VRAF Regional Workshop Program’s funding, host institutions will be able to offer a workshop without the burden of developing it from within, and provide valuable programming not only to their local constituents, but to their broader region. For a reasonable registration fee, the workshops provide an immersive experience on a single topic, framed in a manner that is relevant to image management professionals, users of cultural heritage information, and the larger information community. The call for host sites for the 2019-2020 VRAF Regional Workshop Program will be announced in summer 2019.For more information about the VRAF Regional Workshop Program, including this year’s offerings, please visit: https://vrafoundation.com/