PERFORMING
ARTS INFORMATION PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
The
quest for performing arts information standards
United
States projects and initiatives
European
projects and initiatives
Australian
projects and initiatives
UNITED STATES PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts
One of the first performing
arts libraries to develop and apply MARC and other automated cataloguing rules
and procedures to describe a range of materials in the Dance Collection,
including ephemera such as events, programs and press clippings. The Theatre Collection archival database [as
distinct from its main bibliographic database] uses Advanced Revelation, with
MARC and non-MARC/automatic MARC conversion entry options, pull down menus, code
fields for material type, free text
searching, conservation information and reports generated in MS Word [1994
information, based on visit to NYPL]. .
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Article:
Lourdou, Dorothy. The
Dance Collection automated book catalog.
The LARC Reports, vol 3 issue 3, Fall 1970
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Web
address: <http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa>.
London Stage Information Bank 1660-1800
A full-text database
developed by Ben Ross Schneider Jr . The Index to the London Stage 1660-1880
was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1979. Schneider’s
account of the project, published in 1974, continues to resonate despite the
passage of time and dramatic advances in technology.
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Schneider, Ben Ross Jr. Travels in computerland; or,
Incompatibilities and interfaces: a complete account of the implementation of
the London Stage Information Bank. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1974.
Thesaurus for the Big Ten Performing Arts
Document Inventory
Developed by the Ohio State University
Theatre Research Institute [now the Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Theatre Research Institute] in 1978 to assist collection management and
cataloguing efforts of a consortium of Midwestern university libraries. Its
availability, value and status is unknown at this stage.
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Web address: <http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/osu_profile/triweb>
International
Bibliography of Theatre
Developed
at the Theatre Research Data Centre, Brooklyn College, City University of New
York with the cooperation and support of the American Society of Theatre
Research and SIBMAS and the financial backing from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and Brooklyn College. The 1997
edition of 750 pages has 4400 classed entries, 30,000 subject references and
6000 geo-chronological references. Likely to be of peripheral interest to the
project because
of its bibliographic orientation, but may have relevance if the project
intends retrieving information on subjects other than events, people and
organisations.
The London Stage 1800-1900
Research
program managed by Professor Joseph Donohue, Department of English, University
of Massachusetts, who maintains a database using Revelation and seeks to
coordinate research, share information and ‘recommend consistent methods and
terminology’. The long term aim is to produce a daily calendar of
performances on the nineteenth century stage detailing production information
for every theatre, music hall and other places of entertainment through a
series of discrete projects: a census of archives; a checklist
of newspapers and periodicals; a bibliography of the drama; a
dictionary of theatrical biography; a directory of London theatres; a
catalogue of iconography; and a calendar of performances.
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Web address:
<http://www,unix.oit.umass.edu/~a0fs000/londonstage2. Contact:
joseph.donohue@english.umass.edu]
Dance Coalition Network
Provides full-text finding aids to
collections held by DHC members, links to library catalogues and databases,
performing arts cataloguing guidelines, preservation resources and other
information. Members include the Library of Congress, New York Public
Library's Dance Collection and San Francisco Performing Arts Library and
Museum.
Coalition of Networked Information
A partnership of the
Association of Research Libraries and Educause [an association of university
computer centres] in the United States. Founded in 1990 to realise the promise
of high-performance networks and computers for the advancement of scholarship
and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Has been involved in research
on description and metadata requirements for the development of
networked information discovery and retrieval in the arts and
humanities as well as other subject areas. Helped found the National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage [NINCH], which works to bring
more humanities content and information services to the Internet.
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