Cross
Currents No 3 July 2001
A
digest of cross sectoral information management events, issues and ideas in
organisations, libraries, archives and museums, with special emphasis on
arts and the humanities.
Community
cultural management [NSW]
The
Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW, Regional Arts NSW, Community Cultural
Development NSW (formerly NSW Community Arts Association), in conjunction with
the Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW, will present a conference
on arts and culture at the University of Sydney on 5-6 October 2001. Topics
include creating sustainable cultures with Professor Simon Roodhouse (a UK
cultural specialist), recruiting, training, motivating and managing
volunteers; practical management and governance skills; models of success in
community ownership; working with diverse communities; showcasing past
successes and future directions. Further information: Jocelyn Payne Museums
and Galleries Foundation of NSW 43-51 Cowper Wharf Rd Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
tel 02 9339 9902 fax 02 9358 1852 email admin1@mgfnsw.org.au.
[Source: Australian Museums Online]
Cultural
Heritage Informatics [Italy]
An
International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting, Cultural Heritage and
Technologies in the Third Millennium, will be held in Milan, Italy on 3-7
September. ICHIM,
organised by Archives & Museum Informatics and the Politecnico de Milano,
examines the relationship between technology and cultural heritage every two
years, alternating in North America and Europe. Keynote speakers in 2001
include Maxwell Anderson (Director of the New York Whitney Museum of American
Art, USA), Sarah Tyacke (Keeper of the Public Records Office, United Kingdom)
and Peter Walsh (Chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission,
USA). Conference Co-Chairs are Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and
Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics, USA. Program Co-Chairs are David
Bearman, Archives
& Museum Informatics, USA and Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy. Further information: http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/
CULT
2001 [Denmark]
CULT
2001, exploring ‘an interface between cultural heritage, Netart and state of
the art projects’, will be held in Copenhagen on October 3-5, 2001. The
conference is organised by CultureNet Denmark, a web based Danish Ministry of
Culture platform for state cultural institutions, independent net artists,
international cultural networks and market based technology. It will explore
new visions of collaboration and dissemination strategies. Keynote speakers
include the Virtual Community man himself -
Howard Rheingold (Founder of The Well, USA) - Bruce Roylan
(Executive Director SCRAN, UK), Caroline Søborg Ohlsen (Chief Creative
Officer, Cell network, DK/S), Terry Eagleton (Professor, University of
Manchester, UK), Ceri Sherlock (Creative Director of IE-Ideas Ltd, UK) and
John Howkins (Chairman, Tornado Productions, UK). Conference site: http://www.kulturnet.dk
New
Technologies for the Art and Humanities [UK]
A
New Technologies and the Humanities Conference and exhibition will be held at
the University of London on September 20-21 to explore the implications of new
technologies in terms of both teaching and research and in broader social and
ethical terms. The conference will focus not on technical aspects, but on the
wider issues of ethics, gender, cognition, ideologies and theologies of the
object in the new virtual world. Organisers: Professor Michael Worton (UCL)
and Professor Sandra Kemp (Royal College of Art). Conference website, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/.
[Source: NINCH-Announce]
The
Dance Heritage Coalition in the United States has launched of two projects
with the assistance of the US government and private sponsors.
Fellowship
Program in Dance Documentation and Preservation
The
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has provided funds for the first year of a
Fellowship Program in Dance Documentation and Preservation. The program will
provide opportunities for interns to work directly with and be mentored by
dance archivists in major institutions. After a period of ten weeks in
preservation and archival practice, the interns will be placed in dance
companies, dance libraries, or presenting organizations that already have
professional or volunteer archival staffs for an additional ten-week period.
In addition to providing valuable training in the field of
documentation and preservation, the program will forge important links
with community organizations through the encouragement of archival efforts.
During the first year of this initiative, interns will work with archivists at
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and
Museum, and American Dance Festival.
National
Dance Heritage Videotape Registry
In
response to the magnetic media crisis, the National Endowment for the Arts
will provide funds toward the National Dance Heritage Videotape Registry. This
Dance Heritage Coalition initiative addresses videotape vulnerability and
format obsolescence through the creation of a database to identify tapes that
are in immediate need of preservation and devise an education program that
informs the field about videotape preservation practices. Choreographers,
dance companies, dancers, archives, community and other grassroots
organizations, and presenters will be invited to submit information on
any significant example of a work, performance, or teaching style that has
been videotaped.
America’s
Dance Treasures
The
DHC has also announced the availability of a booklet America's
Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: the First 100. The forty-page, illustrated
booklet was produced in part by funds from the The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philip Morris Companies.
For a gratis copy, send your name and address in an e-mail
to: elal@dance.loc. [Source: Dance Heritage Coalition]
A
workshop on managing digital video content will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on
15-16 August 2001: The workshop will focus on practical applications of
current and emerging standards -- Dublin Core, ODRL, XrML and MPEG7 -- for
describing and managing video assets in any digital video collection, as well
as for sharing collection information in the global environment using the Open
Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol.
Keynote
speeches: Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
Information, on Globally Sharing Information Assets, and Jane Hunter,
Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia, on MPEG7: Transforming
Digital Video Asset Description. Additional presentations will cover ViDe
Dublin Core Application Profile for Digital Video, OAI Implementation for
Dublin Core and XML rights metadata for digital video and there will be
practical sessions on digital video and moving image archives, digital
asset management and standards. Conference sponsors: Coalition for Networked
Information, Internet2, Southeastern Universities Research Association, ViDe.
Conference web site http://www.vide.net/conferences/
[Source: NINCH-Announce]
Clifford
Lynch's most recent article The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in
the Digital World is available in the June edition of First Monday, a
peer-reviewed journal on the Internet. The article offers a comprehensive
survey and analysis of the technological, legal, economic and intellectual
challenges associated with publishing in the digital age. Source: CNI.
Article: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/current_issue/lynch/index.html
Rotator
The
Australian Library and Information Association Music Library Special Interest
Group publishes a newsletter called Rotator. The July issue has
information on Australian holdings of choral sets, the Secure Digital Media
Initiative, MP3, and the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP).
Contact: Fiona Bradley, SBS Radio Resource Centre, Locked Bag 028, Crows Nest
NSW 1585. To subscribe the Music Library Special Interest Group e-list send
email to listproc@alia.org with the
message subscribe aliamlsig yourfirstname yourlastname. .
Digital
Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
The
Performing Arts Data Service in the UK has announced the availability of the
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music at http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk.
The purpose of the DIAMM is to obtain, archive and, where necessary, enhance
digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music. These include
a relatively small number of complete manuscripts, found throughout Britain
and continental Europe, which have been widely studied since their discovery
by scholars at various times over the past century. They also include the much
more numerous manuscript fragments, often barely legible and hard to place and
interpret, which amount to a rich but widely scattered resource that has been
relatively neglected, partly because of the difficulty of access, legibility
and comparison of widely scattered materials that are at the same time
vulnerable to damage and loss. The project has created a new permanent
electronic archive of these images, both to facilitate detailed study of this
music and its sources, and to assure their permanent preservation. The project
is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway,
University of London; the first phase was funded by the Humanities Research
Board in 1998, and the second and third phases have been made possible by
Major Research Grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, awarded in
1999 and 2001. DIAMM is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board: http://www.ahrb.ac.uk
.
The
Music Library of Association
has published Automation Requirements for Music Materials on its
website http://www.musiclibrary.org.
Produced by the MLA’s Subcommittee on Automation, the document updates
earlier work by Lenor Coral in 1986 and 1993.
The
Victoria Theatres Trust
has published the Winter 2001 issue of its newsletter On Stage, which
includes articles on the Melbourne Theatre Company’s new theatre plans,
Nellie Stewart (an article prompted by an exhibition at the Victorian Arts
Centre’s Performing Arts Museum), Julius Knight, the uncertain future of two
of Australia’s oldest theatres – the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, and the
Victoria Theatre, Newcastle - and a debate on the
need for more theatres in Melbourne,. Contact: victt@bigpond.net.au
The
Theatre Library Association’s
Performing Arts Resources no 22 will be available soon with
contributions on balancing access and privacy in performing arts manuscript
collections, processing of the New York Shakespeare Festival Collection, the
Joseph Papp and New York Shakespeare Festival Archives, the Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute and valuing composers' archives
(how one institution encourages international study, performance and
publication). Website: http://tla.library.unt.edu
The
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives’
FESTE Database at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is snow available from the
Performing Arts Data Service at http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk
The Trust maintains a museum and library of books, manuscripts and records of
local historic interest with particular reference to Shakespeare as well as
the archive of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The FESTE Database is a detailed
record of all performances of that company from 1865 to the present, including
full cast lists and bibliographic data relating to contemporary reviews.
The
Australian Society of Archivists
has just produced Selected Essays in Electronic Recordkeeping in Australia.
Edited by Judith Ellis, the book includes a snapshot of the electronic
recordkeeping environment, business imperatives for electronic
recordkeeping, project planning, system design and implementation, options
and methods for managing electronic records, and tools, technologies and
methods for making electronic records accessible. A case study describes the
steps taken by an organisation in the implementation of an electronic records
and document management system. The order form is on the website and the cost
is $35 if posted in Australia. Go to http://www.archivists.org.au,
then to Publications, then Books.
The
National Association for the Visual Arts Research
NAVA
has three research projects underway with funding from the Australian Research
Council and other organisations
-
The
Visual Arts Industry Guidelines Research Project
makes best practice recommendations on artists, gallery/agent
relationships, public art commissioning, competitions, awards, prizes and
fund raising exhibitions; and residencies and workshops. Supplementary
research has been commissioned into a scale of fees and wages, forms of
subsidy, freedom of expression and economic flows of funds.
-
The
Big Picture- A Planning Matrix for the Visual Arts
is examining major forces impacting on the Australian visual arts and
crafts sector including globalisation and local identify, government
policies, economic forces, technological change, infrastructure, public
attitudes, media and education.
- A
Workflow Methodology for Automated Regeneration of Multimedia Information
Systems,
a postgraduate research project based on the Visual Arts Net initiative.
[Source: National Association for the Visual Arts]
Electronic
Imaging and the Visual Arts
EVA
2001, the Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts Conference, will be held in
the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. 24-28 July 2001,
focusing on the latest advances in culture and technology and international
co-operation. Topics include European and American strategies & new
directions, SCRAN, cultural tourism, cultural & educational games,
language engineering & culture and China-Europe Co-operation, digital
imaging & metadata,
project planning, documentation of contemporary art, QuickTime virtual
reality in cultural heritage, business opportunities & winning financial
support. [Website: http://www.vasari.co.uk].
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