Siobhan Davies Dance Online
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Grant Holder:
Professor Sarah Whatley
Siobhan Davies Dance Online is a project that created a fully searchable, online, digital archive of the work of the choreographer Siobhan Davies. In addition to extensive film footage of performances and rehearsals, photographs, programmes etc. it includes scholarly articles, performance reviews, interviews with audience members, analytical commentaries from Siobhan Davies, some of the dancers with the company and others plus a number of other artefacts.
Its objectives are: to create a fully functioning database of all of the above; to present this material in a form that reflects and re-presents the work of Siobhan Davies Dance; to faliticate the future development of the archive with a particular view to interative elements (eg. a choreographic game); to make preparations for the continued management and funding of the archive after the lifetime of the project.
The wider research context of the project relates to the fact that this is the first dance digital archive in the UK. It provides an opportunity for dance scholars, and others, to study the work of a prominent contemporary dance company and enhancen the profile of dance and dance scholarship.
Please see above - the archive involves the wholesale transformation of resources from analogue to digital (sometimes digital to digital) for the purpose of resource dissemination.
| Project start date: 2007-01 | Project end date: 2009-07 |
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d graphic design | Practice-led research |
| 2d scanning | Practice-led research |
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Audio mixing | Practice-led research |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Disk publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Content-based sound retrieval | Data analysis |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Motion capture | Data capture |
| Moving image capture | Data capture |
| Photography | Practice-led research |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Human factors analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Image feature measurement | Data analysis |
| Image manipulation | Practice-led research |
| Image segmentation | Data analysis |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Overlaying | Data analysis |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Risk management | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Sound compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound encoding | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Security planning | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Video post production | Practice-led research |
| Video and moving image compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| sound | Content types |
| moving image | Content types |
| text | Content types |
| media | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Adobe Photoshop, Finalcut Pro, Avid Express Pro, Audacity, Open Office, Acrobat PRO, Imagen, Reclaim
Source material used:
VHS tapes of performances and reheasals, DVcam tapes of rehearsals and performances, DVD's of performances and rehearsals, a variety of older formats of tapes - all held by Siobhan Davies Dance (SDD).
Original video footage made by the project team of performances, get-ins and workshops on DVCAM.
Digital and some film (35mm amd medium format) photographs - some held by SDD and others held by a variety of individual photographers.
Programmes - held by SDD and private contributors.
Scholarly articles and audio recordings - a variety of sources including academic journals.
Press cuttings and reviews - SDD and private contributors.
Masters and PhD theses -individual academics.
Costumes & Set - SDD and other companies (e..g. Rambert)
Posters & publicity material - held by SDD and performance venues.
Digital resource created:
The whole content of the archive will be in a digital form. This includes: moving images in a variety of formats; still images - photographs, posters, programmes etc.; text material - scholarly articles, reviews, press cuttings; analytic commentaries; profile pages; sound clips and other material. These will be displayed in a variety of accessible formats including: .Mpeg2; .Mov; .wmv; .Flv; .Wav; .Mp3; .jpeg; .tiff; .pdf; .doc.
The theme is obviously contemporary dance and movement, its study and analysis and its context.
The purpose of the digital resources is to display the content of the archive in an online, fully searchable form that is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Also, the form of the archive is intended to encourage further research and collaborations within the field of contemporary dance and will reflect and re-present the work of Siobhan Davies Dance.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Flash Video (FLV), Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Apple QuickTime Movie (MOV), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Microsoft Word Document (DOC), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), MPEG2, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Waveform Audio file (WAV), Windows Media Video (WMV)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, qualified (DC)
Publications:
Whatley, Sarah, Allender Paul & Varney Ross "Digitizing Siobhan Davies Dance" Body, Space & Technology online journal Vol 07/Number 02 2008 http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0702/home.html
Whatley, Sarah, Allender Paul & Varney, Ross "Siobhan Davies Dance Online: Virtually Ethnographic" Dance Ethnography Forum, De Montfort University School of English and Performance Studies and the Society for Dance Research (online publication forthcoming).
Whatley, Sarah, Allender Paul & Varney, Ross "Siobhan Davies Dance Online: Virtually Ethnographic" Dance Ethnography Forum, De Montfort University School of English and Performance Studies and the Society for Dance Research (online publication forthcoming).
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Coventry University |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Siobhan Davies Dance |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Sarah Whatley |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | paul allender |
| Title | Siobhan Davies Dance Online |
| Record created | 2008-04-21 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-11 11:17 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2303 |
| Citation of record | paul allender: Siobhan Davies Dance Online. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2303> created: 2008-04-21, last updated 2010-06-11 11:17 |