ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT

Overture and Beginners Please! A Call for Performing Arts Metadata at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In August 1947, Scotland hosted its first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama. Unbeknownst, it simultaneously hosted an uninvited set of eight theatre troupes, whose performances included a staging of Macbeth, alongside Marionette puppet plays. These undeterred artists set into motion what would become the single largest celebration of arts and culture in the world: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The year 2017 is the Festival’s 70th Anniversary. Yet, little attention has been paid to its documentation and description. The literature suggests that metadata schemas dedicated to performing arts are recent, and none have been explored in the context of the Fringe. This research project conducts a case study of an archival collection entitled Follow the Fringe. It employs qualitative content analysis to explore how well the current metadata schemas modeled for performing arts address the descriptive needs of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Migrating Heritage: Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe

Bringing together an international forum of experts, this book looks at how museums, libraries and other public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalisation, mobility and migration across Europe. It puts forward examples of innovative practice and policies that reflect these challenges, looking at issues such as how institutions present themselves to and interact with multicultural audiences, how to support networking across European institutions, and share practice in core activities such as archiving and exhibiting artefacts. Academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions, policymakers, and representatives of migrant communities explore theoretical and practical approaches from a range of different disciplines such as museum studies, cultural studies, social anthropology, sociology of organizations, and library and information science

Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2014 Florence

Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts), regarding Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, Palace - Monuments, Archaeological Sites). The International Conference includes the following Sessions: Strategic Issues; EC Projects and Related Networks & Initiatives; 2D - 3D Technologies and Applications; Virtual Galleries - Museums and Related Initiatives; Access to the Culture Information. Three Workshops regard: International Cooperation; Innovation and Enterprise; e.Culture Cloud

Embodied Approaches in Archiving Dance:Memory, Disappearance, Transformations and the ‘archive-as-body’

This thesis investigates what types of dance archives exist, how they are organised, what the transformation of archival data reveals about archiving dance, and how dance is transmitted through the archive. This study also contemplates what the function of the archive could mean for the future development of dance documentation, dance archives and dance transmission. Furthermore, the research investigates how embodied approaches offer new ways of researching archives and enhancing user-engagement in dance archives.In this research, I examine how the organisation, preservation and archiving of dance content transforms the idea of the ‘archive’. I selected three very different archives of dance, as case studies, to examine physical and non-physical archival collections applying a case study and constructive grounded theory approach: 1) The TanzArchiv Leipzig, a traditional archive of dance that flourished in East Germany during the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949-1990), in which art and culture were valued as national currencies 2) the Lucy Guerin Inc private dance archive collection of an Australian contemporary dance company based in Melbourne, Australia and 3) the digital archive RePlay of British contemporary choreographer Siobhan Davies. I describe the nature of each case study and develop a methodological framework suitable for drawing on my knowledge and experience as a dance practitioner. The research interrogates the nature of dance archives. It, therefore, highlights that anarchive of dance is a lot more than a collection of historical records endemically arranged to be stored and saved for the unknown researcher. By focusing on the seriesof case studies, I provide a deeper understanding of what the core properties of ‘dancearchives’ are, present my analysis of how the digital environment transforms the idea ofthe archive and examine how and to what extent embodied enquiry supports theexamination of the fundamental properties and function of the ‘archive’ of dance.Moreover, an embodied approach to user-engagement generates new ways of thinkingabout dance and consequently provides new conditions for archiving dance. Thus,enabling me to propose a redefinition of what an ‘archive’ means in dance; it is a fluidenvironment. Similarly, to the content it hosts, it moves and transforms throughengagement and the new relations it builds through the passages of body-experience-capture-archive-digitisation-data and re-use.I conclude this study with the proposition that: - a method of ‘distillation’ which I developed is essential when researching dancearchives, and I explain how this approach was further enhanced through drawingon my practice-based knowledge- developing embodied approaches as a way of distilling and transmittingknowledge enables an in-depth engagement with archival content- viewing the archive as a body/self that is in a constant state of becoming in amatter/material environment afforded me insight into considering the archive asa body and exploring the possibility of translating archival actions intoembodied approaches. Furthermore, the findings of this research advocate for the valorisation of dancearchives as necessary sources of research for an in-depth examination of our sociopolitical history, intangible cultural heritage and the fragility of digital evolution;namely, how we utilise content and curate multimedia-based information while considerembodied ways of inquiry.<br/

AIUCD2019 - Book of Abstracts

L’ottava edizione del Convegno nazionale dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, collocandosi nel solco delle precedenti edizioni, si pone l’obiettivo di costituire un punto di incontro tra studiosi delle diverse discipline che - a vario titolo - fanno capo alle cosiddette Digital Humanities: umanisti digitali, informatici, linguisti, storici, archeologi, musicologi, filologici e non solo. Il tema principale di questa ottava edizione è la “Didattica e ricerca al tempo delle Digital Humanities”. Si tratta di un ambito vasto che accomuna pratiche e settori di studio interdisciplinari e multidisciplinari e che riguarda i mutamenti della didattica e della ricerca nell'era digitale