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PERFORMING ARTS INFORMATION PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

by Paul Bentley

21 August 2000


National Database of Australian Theatre Practice

The quest for performing arts information standards

United States projects and initiatives

European projects and initiatives

Australian projects and initiatives

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Bentley, Paul. Acting on a new stage: performing arts information management in New South Wales. February 1998. <http://www.twf.org/research/actingsum

Bentley, Paul. Documenting the performing arts: a draft discussion paper presented at Museum Australia’s Performing Arts Special Interest Group conference, Brisbane, 1995. Unpublished.

Boehm, Carola. A short description of the system at the Performing Arts Data Service, University of Glasgow, March 1999.
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Hartog, Joh. The computerized gaze and the performing arts. Australasian Drama Studies 32, April 1998: 109-130.

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Hogg, Katharine. Music Libraries Online – a virtual union catalogue for music. Vine 114: 43-49

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Miller, Paul and Greenstein, Daniel, editors. Discovering online resources across the humanities: a practical implementation of the Dublin Core. Bath: UKOLN on behalf of the Art and Humanities Data Service, 1997. Surveys information management practice in the humanities and proposes a system architecture for cross-domain discovery in the performing arts and other subjects

Mühlberger, Gunter. Digitisation of newspaper clippings: the LAURIN Project. RLG DigiNews Vol 3, no 6. 15 December 1999. <http:www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-6>

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Roberts, David. Making the words count: towards an analytical database of theatrical reviews. NTQ: New Theatre Quarterly Volume 15 no 4 (60), November 1999: 332-338,

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Sheehy, Carolyn A. Managing performing arts collection in academic and public libraries / edited by Carolyn A Sheehy. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1994.

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Van Camp, Anne. Building the seamless web of cultural research resources. Archives & Museum Informatics 12: 287-292, 1998.

Wright, JK and Westover, RC. Inter-play: the creation of an Internet play index. Internet Reference Service Quarterly Vol 3, no 3, 1998:83-89. Arts and Humanities Data Service

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