Tag Archives: archives

Video, Metadata, Archives

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Adrian

Then there’s the EN 15907 metadata standard for Cinematographic works , though I don’t think the project is about cinematographic works so much as records of performance (the ‘thing’ to be archived is an audiovisual record of a performance, not a videographic work or artefact). … An OWL implementation of CIDOC-CRM is developed at the Friedrich- Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with several other institutions: http://erlangen-crm.org/ Deena Engel (New York University): With respect to capturing metadata on time-based media, you might find both information and community through the Electronic Media Group wiki of the American Institute for conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( http://www.conservation-wiki.com/index.php? Continue reading →

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Three Little Taxonomies

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Adrian

It turns out there is no extant taxonomy for circus performance (it is not my area at all so I don’t even know if such a thing exists formally anywhere in the performing arts), and so we have started to make one. … Then we worked through what this meant, which was that this was an expert taxonomy and not really how you and I would begin to find a particular act in an archive of circus performance (after all, until I visited Wikipedia, I had no idea what ” tissu ” was in circus). Continue reading →

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Video Archival Summary of Practice

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Adrian

‘Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving’ http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html [accessed 27 May 2011]. … The second doesn’t have much information, and is more about archiving language, not video, but that is useful as the issues then are not artefact based, which is relevant to the problems we are investigating and facing. Continue reading →

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About the Circus Oz Living Archive Project

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Laetitia

I wanted to put something up here about the project in general, to give new visitors to the site a bit of an overview of what we’re doing.  I remembered David Carlin’s recent article ‘Narrative of our project at a … Continue reading →

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Meet the Living Archive

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Laetitia

This is the invitation for our ‘Meet the Living Archive’ event for Circus Oz company members and current employees.  To be held in the Melba Spiegeltent in May.

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Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube

Posted on March 8, 2011 by David

Thanks to Seth Keen for this heads-up. Looks to be some interesting discussion around the theory and aesthetics of online video, as well as some ‘collection case-studies’: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of … Continue reading →

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Social Networks and Archival Context Project

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Adrian

Straight email dump: From: Daniel Pitti Subject: Public release of IATH’s Social Networks and Archival Context Project I hope some of you will be interested in the early research and development results of the Social Networks and Archival Context project. … Direct access to the prototype system and a detailed description of project work to date may be found at http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/prototype.html Additional information about the SNAC Project may be found at http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ Please feel free to share this information with colleagues who may be interested. Continue reading →

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Impact Calculator

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Adrian

An ‘impact calculator’ which is actually a complex Excel spreadsheet, that “can be used to demonstrate the impact of records and information management by quantifying the tangible benefits or efficiency gains that can be derived from it.” Not related to this project, except as an example of what happens at the blurry edges of archival practice sliding in to the dark waters of (threatening violin) records and information management. Continue reading →

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