The Performing Arts Data Service.

The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS), funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and based at the University of Glasgow, aims to support research and teaching in UK Higher Education by collecting and promoting the use of digital data relating to the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre and dance. The PADS is one of 5 service providers of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) which will provide a single gateway for arts and humanities scholars wishing to search for datasets across various discipline areas. Data is indexed with Dublin Core metadata, will interoperate with other databases within the AHDS and beyond, and will be available via the Web

The Performing Arts Data Service: Imaginations/Universities Network Pilot Project.

The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS), funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and based at the University of Glasgow, aims to support research and teaching in UK Higher Education by collecting and promoting the use of digital data relating to the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre and dance. The PADS is one of 5 service providers of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) which will provide a single gateway for arts and humanities scholars wishing to search for datasets across various discipline areas. Data is indexed with Dublin Core metadata, will interoperate with other databases within the AHDS and beyond, and will be available via the Web. Data relating to Performing Arts is by nature diverse: from text based, to visuals/images, to the intrinsically time-based. Any information system for dealing with this range of material must be able to store complex and composite data, cope with a multitude of single documents, and offer intelligent, user-friendly but controlled access over wide area networks. To be of most use to researchers some means of delivery of data is required as well as effective searching. To this end PADS has acquired two Silicon Graphics Origin 200 servers, one of which will act as a media server streaming audio and video over scalable networks; the other will run an object-orientated database (Hyperwave Information Server) which will store both the non-time-based data and the metadata of the material on the media server. A significant issue facing the PADS is that of streaming audio and video to multiple platforms over varying bandwidths. This paper will cover the general information systems requirements for complex multimedia data and the web; will describe in detail the hybrid database and mediaserver system chosen for use at the PADS; and give an overview of current plans for testing video streaming at the PADS in conjunction with the British Film Institute/British Universities Film and Video Council and Joint Information Systems Committee’s “Imagination/Universities Network Pilot”

Serving Massive Time-Based Media (SMaTBaM) - Report on the evaluation process of system needs and demands of serving time -based media in the area of the Performing Arts

The SMaTBaM project (Serving Massive Time-Based Media) aimed to establish a working example of a dataserver for time-based media in the area of the Performing Arts. Building on experience gained in the UMI/NetMuse project, the project will demonstrate the searching and serving of massive realtime data, using a web-based interactive front end. The project is designed directly to enhance the Performing Arts Data Service, PADS , whose remit and funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, AHDS, do not extend to conducting research into the development of specialized supporting technology. (PADS is a Glasgow University Arts Planning Unit Project based in the Departments of Music and of Theatre, Film and Television Studies.

MusicWeb Den Haag - Developing Tools for Higher Music Education, using Wide Area Networks and Hypermedia Technology

MusicWeb is an international project group, with the objective to develop an infrastructure and applications for computer-aided music education. Keywords are: new pedagogical paradigms, musically relevant material, modular course design, reusable resources and tools, wide area networks, distributed technical infrastructure, object database with web gateway. This paper reports in particular on the recent development of educational materials at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and on the realization of the technical infrastructure, designed in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and the Musikhochschule in Hannover

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

MusicWeb Den Haag - Developing Tools for Higher Music Education, using Wide Area Networks and Hypermedia Technology

MusicWeb is an international project group, with the objective to develop an infrastructure and applications for computer-aided music education. Keywords are: new pedagogical paradigms, musically relevant material, modular course design, reusable resources and tools, wide area networks, distributed technical infrastructure, object database with web gateway. This paper reports in particular on the recent development of educational materials at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and on the realization of the technical infrastructure, designed in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and the Musikhochschule in Hannover

Scholarly Rhetoric in Digital Media (or: Now that we have the technology, what do we do with it?)

Abstract: This article addresses the hypothesis that scholarly argument as it is presently pursued is mediated through print; but the advent of modern ICT offers alternative media to support scholarly publication. However, few academics have much expertise with these media. Accordingly, if this technology is to be fully exploited the academic community will need to acquire such expertise and this may have significant implications or the way in which scholarly argument is constructed. This hypothesis is addressed from a rhetorical perspective and consideration is given to what the impact of alternative publication media may be on the structure of scholarly argument.Editors: Simon Buckingham Shum (Open Univ., UK)Reviewers: Locke Carter (Texas Tech. U., USA), David Kolb (Bates College, USA), Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (Open U., UK) Interactive elements: 'This aubmission comes in three versions, as explained in Sec. 1.2:A conventional print version (PDF)A version with hypertext navigation (the version you are reading now in the JIME user interface)A Navihedron hypertext version with a visual document navigation tool is available. This requires the Macromedia Shockwave plugin.