From pwilkins at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 12 11:05:08 2007 From: pwilkins at MIT.EDU (Peter Wilkins) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:05:08 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Reminder: Next meeting of the Image Tools SIG - Thursday, March 15 Message-ID: Mark your calendar. The next meeting of the MIT Image Tools SIG will be on Thursday, March 15, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. The meeting will be held in the N42 Demo Center. Here is a map indicating the location of building N42: http:// whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=N42&Buildings=go The meeting topic will be metadata. We'll open with a presentation by Ann Whiteside, the Head of the Rotch Library. Ann was an editor, on behalf of the Visual Resources Association, of the recently completed book, Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. The primary focus of the manual is "describing, documenting, and cataloging ... art and architecture, including, but not limited to paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, built works, installations, and other visual media." (there is a link to this document on the VRA home page: http://www.vraweb.org) This meeting is open to anyone interested in the subject, so feel free to invite others. You may manage your list membership at this site: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/image-tools You may also direct people to this site if they want to join the list to learn of future events. Regards, Peter Peter Wilkins Convener, Image Tools SIG DUE - Office of Educational Innovation and Technology N42-040n pwilkins at mit.edu 617-253-1694 office 603-498-1923 mobile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/image-tools/attachments/20070312/aaa0b123/attachment.htm