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 REMINDER: Content proposals for the 2023 Visual Resources Association (VRA) Conference are due March 17th!
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. The 2023 VRA Conference will be held September 26-28, 2023, at the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk in San Antonio. The format will be hybrid, allowing for the possibility of presenting remotely.
Access the conference proposal form here. Content may take the form of individual papers, panel presentation sessions, special interest/user groups, workshops, poster sessions, and committee meetings. Session moderators may put out calls for presenters within a proposed topic before or after the submission of a proposal. Past conference schedules can give you an idea of the range of topics presented in previous years.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Coding (PHP, Python, SQL, etc.)
- Community outreach
- Copyright/Intellectual property
- Digital asset management, digital curation, digital preservation, etc.
- Digitization (workflows, digital capture and imaging technologies)
- Digital scholarship and digital humanities
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural competencies, social justice
- Project management (communication, grant writing, prioritization, leadership, etc.)
- Linked data
- Materials/Objects collections
- Metadata/Cataloging ethics (decolonizing vocabularies, radical cataloging)
- Storytelling and oral history
- Technologies (GIS and mapping, 3D imaging, etc.)
- Tools: open source, evolution, future trends
Workplace cultures and professional transitions (academic departments, libraries, cultural heritage institutions, archives, corporate, etc.)
All proposals are welcome, and if you have other conference ideas or suggestions that do not fit the conference proposal form, please reach out to the Director for Events and Initiatives, Brian Shelburne.
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