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Preservation through access: the AHDS performing arts collections in ECLAP and Europeana
This poster provides an overview of the ongoing rescue of
valuable digital collections that had been taken down and
consequently lost to general access.
The University of Glasgow was home to the Arts and Humanities
Data Service Performing Arts (AHDS Performing Arts) [1], one
of the five arts and humanities data centres that constitute the Arts
and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Since 1996 AHDS
supported the creation, curation, preservation and reuse of digital
materials for the UK Arts and Humanities research and teaching
community. AHDS Performing Arts, based in Glasgow, supported
research, learning and teaching in music, dance, theatre, radio,
film, television, and performance for thirteen years. Working with
the AHDS Executive, relevant performing arts collections have
been ingested, documented, preserved, and where possible made
available via the AHDS Cross Search Catalogue and Website to
researchers, practitioners, and the general public. Furthermore
strong relationships were developed with research and teaching
community upon a scoping study investigating user needs [2].
In 2007 the co-funders of the AHDS - Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) for the UK and the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) - withdrew their funding. A detailed
risk assessment report was produced in response to the
withdrawal of core funding [3], but to no avail. When the AHDS
funding stopped, online access to these cultural resources
eventually became discontinued [4].
In 2010, the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University
of Glasgow joined the EU-funded ECLAP project to ensure that at
least part of these resources could be accessible for the long term
by scholars and practitioners in the performing arts arena, and by
the general public. Below we briefly describe the ECLAP project,
the AHDS Performing Arts collections progressively available
through it and some thoughts on providing preservation through
access for this type of digital cultural resources
Digital curation skills in the performing arts: an investigation of practitioner awareness and knowledge of digital object management and preservation
This study examines the digital curation awareness and practice of a sample of practitioners from the UK performing arts community. Twelve performance arts practitioners from across the United Kingdom were interviewed to establish understanding of whether, why and how they create and manage digital objects in the course of their creative work. Detailed qualitative data from this series of one-to-one interviews about the actual and intended digital curation practices of these performance arts practitioners establish what they understand about sustainable management of digital objects, and also which digital curation activities they actually include in their working processes. This knowledge is supplemented with some preliminary exploration of the types of digital resources that are sought and used by performance arts practitioners, in order to understand whether there is a comparable appetite for the creation and for the reuse of digital objects in this field. Questions in the interview identify the sources used by practitioners when attempting to access digital objects created by others as part of research for their own creative work. This provides a ‘practitioner's-eye view’ of performance collections; that is to say, the resources used by practitioners as collections for research, irrespective of the formal designation or intended purpose of such resources. Here, this enquiry is set into the broader context of digital curation and preservation. The approach to the interviewing is described, findings are discussed and the presence of possible skills and knowledge gaps is presented. Concluding remarks indicate the implications of these indicative findings for the representation of performance arts practice for current and future generations, and suggest useful future areas of enquiry
Digital Preservation Services : State of the Art Analysis
Research report funded by the DC-NET project.An overview of the state of the art in service provision for digital preservation and curation. Its focus is on the areas where bridging the gaps is needed between e-Infrastructures and efficient and forward-looking digital preservation services. Based on a desktop study and a rapid analysis of some 190 currently available tools and services for digital preservation, the deliverable provides a high-level view on the range of instruments currently on offer to support various functions within a preservation system.European Commission, FP7peer-reviewe
Scholarly Communication Initiatives Department Jan 2018 - June 2019 Report
This report highlights the major accomplishments of the Scholarly Communication Initiatives Department (SCI) with a special emphasis on statistics from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, our institutional repository. The report reflects activities from January 2018 through June 2019.
The significant highlights during this time include the 5 millionth download of a digital item from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, adding over 3,000 full-text theses and dissertations written at UNLV from 1977-2008, establishing pilot projects to support open access and research data management efforts, releasing the 2013 and 2017 Solar Decathlon collections, and hosting an ambitious and engaging Open Access Week slate of activities
Developing a model for e-prints and open access journal content in UK further and higher education
A study carried out for the UK Joint
Information Systems Committee examined models for the
provision of access to material in institutional and
subject-based archives and in open access journals. Their
relative merits were considered, addressing not only
technical concerns but also how e-print provision (by
authors) can be achieved – an essential factor for an
effective e-print delivery service (for users). A "harvesting" model is recommended, where the metadata of articles deposited in distributed archives are harvested, stored and enhanced by a national service. This model has major advantages over the alternatives of a national centralized service or a completely decentralized one. Options for the implementation of a service based on the harvesting model are presented
Public libraries, arts and cultural policy in the UK
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Purpose:
Public libraries in the UK are increasingly expected to provide arts activities and events as part of their usual
operations. This paper summarizes recent policy trends in this direction from both the perspective of libraries' and
the arts sector. A touring theatre project aimed at children and families is discussed in further detail to examine
some of the outcomes of these policies.
Design/Methodology/Approach:
The paper will present a brief history of policy developments and debate in this area. Mixed method findings from
the research element of 'Among Ideal Friends' (AIF) will be discussed, having used surveys and interviews with
audiences and librarians, geodemographic profiling, box office records and library card data.
Findings:
Public funding across both libraries and the arts has decreased at a national and local level, though both sectors
are encouraged to work together to share expertise and community knowledge. Costs and benefits of the project
are presented and while the holistic view is broadly positive, the return to any specific agency or stakeholder
group less certain.
Practical implications:
Public libraries can see the results and challenges of a successful touring theatre project for consideration in their
own activity planning, especially those related to families and younger users.
Social implications:
Libraries and Arts organisations have different priorities in regards to these areas. Though co-operative, the
situation is not without tension. The topic is illustrative of some wider debates around cultural value, participation
and ‘cultural democracy’.
Originality/value:
This paper offers a timely discussion of cultural policy in relation to libraries, eg: The Society of Chief Librarians
'Universal Cultural Offer' (October 2017)
2010 Bright Ideas Conference Program
Event program for the 2010 Bright Ideas Conference at SFASU
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