Murtha Baca is Head of the Getty Vocabulary Program and the Digital Resource Management department of the Getty Research Institute. She holds holds a PhD in Art History and Italian language and literature from UCLA. Murtha has published and taught extensively on data standards and controlled vocabularies for indexing and accessing cultural heritage information and images. In 2002 she edited Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Publications). She is a member of the Visual Resources Association editorial team that is writing the manual Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images.