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The Visual Resources Association is pleased to announce that select
chapters of their DLF-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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