Murtha Baca

Background

Murtha Baca was born in 1951.

Education

Murtha Baca received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1973. In 1975 he received a Master of Arts degree and Ph.D. degree in 1978.

Career

Murtha worked as a lecturer in Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978-1979, freelance editor and translator since 1979, visiting assistant professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1984-1985, assistant director of Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986-1987, assistant archivist for Provenance Index, Getty Art History Information Program at Getty Information Institute, Santa Monica, California in 1988, name authority editor at Vocabulary Coordination Group in 1988-1990, senior editor at Standards and Research Projects since 1988. Currently he worked as IS lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Achievements

• He was awarded ARLIS Award of Merit from Art Libraries Society in 1996.

Works

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  • Introduction to Metadata: Revised Edition
  • Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images
  • The Life of Things, the Love of Things (Commonalities)
  • Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies
  • Merchant Writers of the Renaissance: From Boccaccio to Lorenzo De' Medici

Membership

He is a member of College Art Association of America, Visual Resources Association, Art Libraries Society/ North America.