Save the Date: VRA NoCal Fall Chapter Meeting, November 4, 2011

Hello all,

Please save the date of November 4, 2011, to join the VRA Northern California Chapter for our Fall meeting on the UC Berkeley campus at CoDA, UCB’s Center for Digital Archaeology. The day’s activities will include two presentations, a tour of CoDA, and an optional visit to the Kurt Schwitters exhibition at BAM/PFA.

About the Presentations:

• Jan Eklund, Business Systems Analyst, IST Data Services, UC Berkeley, will follow up on her talk from this summer’s CaVraCon about implementing CollectionSpace for the UC Berkeley Art History collection, “Deploying CollectionSpace for a VR Collection.”

For more information about CollectionSpace, please see:

http://www.collectionspace.org/
http://wiki.collectionspace.org/
http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/deploy/HAVRC

• Dr. Michael Ashley, Chief Technology Officer at CoDA, will discuss the projects taking place at CoDA, as well as lead a tour of the facility.

For more information about CoDA, please see:

http://www.codifi.info/

This meeting is open to all current VRA members; non-members are welcome to attend for a $10 fee. To join or renew your annual VRA membership, please submit payment directly to VRA following the instructions here:

http://www.vraweb.org/members/index.html

Tentative Agenda:

Full details are forthcoming, but the following activities are currently scheduled for the day:

• VRA Northern California Chapter business meeting at CoDA, located at 2224 Piedmont Avenue (please see map below).

• Presentations by Dr. Michael Ashley and Jan Eklund.

• Tour of CoDA.

• A lunch break will be taken mid-day at which time attendees may choose from several options around the UC Berkeley campus.

• Attendees can then end the day with an optional visit to the Kurt Schwitters exhibition at BAM/PFA.

Meeting Location Information:

UC Berkeley’s CoDA, the Center for Digital Archaeology, is located at 2224 Piedmont Avenue. The CoDA building is near the intersection of Optometry Lane and Piedmont Avenue, just north of the Boalt Hall School of Law and west of the California Memorial Stadium.









Public Transit / Parking Information:

The nearest BART station to UC Berkeley’s campus is the Downtown Berkeley stop: http://www.bart.gov/stations/dbrk/index.aspx

AC Transit Trip Planner: http://transit.511.org/accessible/tripplanner/index.aspx

AC Transit UC Berkeley: http://pt.berkeley.edu/around/transit/alttransit

Information on honoring other UC permits: http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/permit/affiliates#reciprocity

UC Berkeley parking maps: http://pt.berkeley.edu/maps

List of public parking lots: http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/public


BAM/PFA Information:

About the Kurt Schwitters Exhibition: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/schwitters

Visitor Information: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit


Please feel free to contact Karen Kessel (karen.kessel@sonoma.edu, 707-664-2145) or Abby Dansiger (adansiger@academyart.edu, 415-618-3761) with any questions or concerns.

We look forward to seeing you on November 4th!