VRA Los Angeles 2019: Call for Proposals

The Visual Resources Association’s 2019 Annual Conference will be held in Los Angeles, California, from Tuesday, March 26th, through Friday, March 29th, 2019, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Los Angeles Downtown. Please mark your calendar.Proposals for papers, sessions, special interest/user groups, and workshops are now being solicited for the 2019 program. All proposals are welcome.Click here to access the conference proposal form.

• A paper is an individual idea submission, which will be reviewed for possible grouping into a session. Your ideas, whether they come to us alone or in a group, are equally valued in the Board's proposal and selection process.
• A session is a maximum 60-minute moderated panel, usually consisting of no more than 3 presenters each, speaking for 15 to 18 minutes, followed by a brief facilitated question and answer period. If you feel your session topic requires more time, consider dividing it into two sessions, consisting of a Part I and a Part II.
• A special interest/user group is a 60-minute informal, community -driven, facilitated group discussion on topics related to a specific segment of the VRA membership.
• A workshop is a 2, 4, or 8-hour workshop to develop skills and experience in the field of visual resources, preferably with hands-on activities.

The proposal deadline is Friday, August 3rd, 2018. Program submissions received after this date will not be considered for the 2019 conference.The quality of conference content depends upon YOUR ideas and contributions, so let those creative juices flow. Perusing some of the past conference schedules will show you the range of topics presented in previous years and may inspire your proposal. Use suggested topics compiled from post-conference survey responses (see below) or your imagination to propose ideas which expand our outlook. If there is an area of concern or interest that you feel has not been adequately addressed, participate in this process by submitting a proposal. Moderators may put out calls for presenters within a proposed topic before or after the submission of a proposal. The VRA Executive Board will be looking for articulate and concise submissions with lists of presenters, but submissions without presenter lists are encouraged as well.Suggested topics:

• Active Learning
• Archives
• Cataloging Cultural Objects
• Coding - PHP, Python, SQL, etc.
• Commercial partners
• Copyright/Intellectual Property
• Corporate Visual Resources careers
• Data Visualization
• Digital Asset Management
• Digital Humanities
• Digital publishing
• Diversity/Inclusion
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
• Imaging - Workflow and organization
• Maps - GIS, Omeka and Neatline, Storymaps
• Metadata - Assessment, standards, structures, and tools
• Moving images and sound
• Non-Academic careers
• Pedagogy/Teaching
• Photogrammetry
• Photoshop
• Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)

Questions regarding the proposal process and the various presentation formats included in the VRA Conference program can be directed to Jacob Esselstrom, the VRA Vice President for Conference Program.Again, the proposal deadline is Friday, August 3rd, 2018. We look forward to hearing from you!