Internet2/Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Sponsored:
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Related Links
Cultural Heritage Repositories
The Dance Heritage Coalition
(a group of nine major dance collections concerned with access
to, documentation for, preservation of, and education about the
nation's dance heritage. Members include Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival,
The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts, and the Harvard Theatre Collection). The site doesn't specifically
address digital archiving, but does include reports on videotaping
production and documentation quality standards, a "cataloging
guidelines and processing procedures manual", and other relevant
material.
EVIA Digital Archive
Project: Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis,
a joint project of Indiana University and the University of Michigan.
(Some portions of the site require authentication.)
The goal of the Variations2
Project at the Indiana University Digital Music Library is to
establish a digital music library testbed system containing music
in a variety of formats, involving research and development in the
areas of system architecture, metadata standards, component-based
application architecture, and network services. This system will
be used as a foundation for digital library research in the areas
of instruction, usability, human-computer interaction, and intellectual
property rights.
The Library of Congress provides the following multimedia collections,
projects, and facilities:
The National Initiative
for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a diverse coalition
of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural
community in the evolution of the digital environment. Note: In
2002 NINCH will publish its Guide to Good Practice in the Digital
Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials.
It will be an online handbook in decision-tree format for members
of the community who are digitizing and networking cultural resources.
See their Tools
for Today page for more information.
Recording and Capture of Performing
Arts for Online Use
The Digital
Media Net home page includes news, tutorials, features, research,
reviews, profiles of industry leaders, and extensive user forums
through their affiliation with the WWUG (Worldwide Users Groups).
In addition, they produce DMNTV, the industry's only regularly scheduled
video webcast. For examples of these sites, see Digital
Post Production and Digital
Producer
Magazine.
EMediaLive: The
Technology of Digital Video site is for technology professionals
who produce, store, present, and stream digital content.
Audio
on the Internet, an essay by Victor Lombardi for the Music Technology
Program at the New York University Graduate School of Education,
explaining the use of audio content on the Internet.
The Berkeley
Multimedia Research Center's (BMRC) Internet Video Gateway at
the University of California, Berkeley. Also see BMRC's other research
efforts and publications (on the left side of the frame). The BMRC
homepage leads to a variety of interesting projects and resources,
including multimedia
how-to guides.
Archive and Retrieval of Performing
Arts for Online Use
Building
a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving,
commissioned for and sponsored by the National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress, April
2002. (The chapters on sound, video, and digital television are
especially relevant.)
Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries, Portland, Oregon July 14-18 2002. See especially
workshop 4 on music information retrieval, paper sessions 6A –
Video and Multimedia Digital Libraries, 11A – Music Digital
Libraries, and 12A – Image and Cultural Digital Libraries,
as well as many of the panels, demos and posters.
Metadata
searching in a Multimedia Database Environment (January 2000).
A report by the Electronic Text Center at the University of New
Brunswick Libraries and Industry Canada that includes metadata schemes
that describe a variety of multimedia objects — image, sound,
video and virtual reality Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
— intended for Canadian school age children and their teachers
using Industry Canada's SchoolNet Website. The schemas were developed
in consultation with Jane Hunter of the Australian Distributed Systems
Technology Centre and Cornell University's Carl Lagoze and Diane
Hillmann". (Note that Jane Hunter is and academic specializing
in "multimedia metadata modeling and schema design"; her
web site includes many links to related research papers and websites.)
The Performing Arts Data Service's list of Guides
to Good Practice in the Performing Arts. Note especially these
two:
- Guide
to Good Practice: Creating Digital Performance Resources Description
— This first title in the PADS' Guide to Good Practice Series
— 'Creating Digital Performance Resources' is intended to
support data creators in dance, theatre and other performance
arts and advise on working methodologies, best practice in digital
encoding, documentation and presentation and to present the experiences
of professionals creating a wide variety of performing arts resources.
Creator: Editor - Professor Barry Smith, The Live Art Archive,
Nottingham Trent University
- Guide to
Good Practice: Digitising Audio Resources Description —
The second title in PADS' Guide to Good Practice Series offers
a practical guide to digitising audio resources from a variety
of formats. Common pitfalls and problems are examined and tips
offered. The guide also investigates rights management and clearance
issues for audio resources and offers advice on metadata creation.
Creator: Nick Fells, Catherine Owen (ed.), Pauline Donachy.
The 25th annual international ACM
SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2002. Also see these SIGIR 2002 sessions: Tutorial
on Searching Video Collections: Representation, Indexing, Browsing
and Evaluation and Session
on Multimedia IR.
Digital Asset Management
and Intellectual Property
"Fair Use by Design" workshop on the impact of digital
rights management tools from the 2002
Conference on Computers, Freedom, & Privacy.
"The
Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age",
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information
Infrastructure, National Research Council. Also available as a book
from The National Academy Press. ISBN 0-309-06499-6
"Digital
piracy bill raises fair-use concerns for schools" by Cara
Branigan, Associate Editor, eSchool News April 4, 2002. For other
views of the bill, see Digital Media Association's "Statement
of Jonathan Potter Regarding S. 2048, the `Consumer Broadband and
Digital Television Promotion Act" and Digital Consumer.Org,
"Protecting Fair-Use
rights in the digital world".
Guidelines
for educators on how to use the Library of Congress' American
Memory Collection's online multimedia resources, including what
constitutes fair use, situations in which it is best to seek permission,
and examples.
The University of Michigan Digital
Asset Management Initiative. The site also has reviews
and resource listings, an annotated listing, and glossary of
DAM technology providers broken down by market segment.
Other Sites of Interest
Cultivate Interactive
is an online magazine aimed at the European cultural heritage community
including IT staff, information professionals, researchers, managers,
policy makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries, and non-profit
making organisations.
The Digital Performance
Archive (DPA) traces the rapid developments taking place which
combine performance activity with new digital technologies -from
live theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections,
to performances that take place on the computer-screen via webcasts
and interactive virtual environments. The Archive also collates
examples of how computer technologies are being used to create,
document or analyse performance — from software applications
for choreography and theatre design to specialist websites, e-zines
and CD-ROMs.
Enhanced Television
Cookbook is a How-To Guide to Enhanced TV for television station
producers, managers, engineers and interactive developers interested
in Enhanced Television.
Choreographing
in Bits and Bytes: Motion Capture, Animation and Software for Making
Dances
Digital
Theatre – An Experimentarium
UCI
Motion Capture Studio
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