The Visual Resources Association

The Visual Resources Association is a multi-disciplinary, international professional organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of media management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the visual resources field,developing and advocating standards, and offering educational tools and activities,publication programs, and opportunities for the benefit of the community at large.

The Association offers a forum for issues of vital concern to the field of digital and analog curation, including: preservation of and access to digital and analog images of media documenting visual culture; cataloging and classification standards and practices;integration of technology-based instruction and research; digital humanities;intellectual property policy; visual literacy and other topics of interest to the field.Through collaboration, partnership, and outreach with the broader information management, and educational, and scholarly communities, the Association actively supports the primacy of visual information in documenting and understanding humanity's shared cultural experience. http://www.vraweb.org/