UK Arts and Humanities Data Center Performing Arts Report

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
[mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCEcni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:40 AM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] UK Arts and Humanities Data Center
Performing Arts
Report

I wanted to share the availability of this report 
and opportunity for comment with CNI-announce 
readers. My apologies for any duplication.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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CALL FOR COMMENTS

For some ten years now, the Arts and Humanities Data Service
has worked to
support the higher education community's creation and use
of digital
resources for teaching and research purposes as well as the
preservation of
those resources. AHDS Performing Arts has recently completed
a scoping
study - Getting to Know Our Audience - which examines what
the UK Higher
Education community needs and expects from a Performing Arts
data service
covering music, dance, theatre, film, television, radio, and
live art, and
how opportunities for teaching and research can be created
and enhanced by
the use of digital collections.

Daisy Abbott, the Services and Outreach Officer for AHDS
Performing Arts has
spent the last six months collecting and analysing data and
speaking in
detail with the Performing Arts community, alongside her
co-author, Emma
Beer of the AHDS Executive.  They are immensely grateful to
all those from
the community who both took the time to complete the survey
instrument and
in some cases take part in interviews which richly informed
the study.

The report identifies some fascinating conclusions about the
nature of
research and teaching in the Performing and Broadcast Arts
and demonstrates
the huge potential for further collaborations at the
individual,
institutional, and funding levels in order to maximise the
value of the high
quality digital materials produced as evidence of
performances, processes,
and research.

AHDS Performing Arts would like to invite you to read this
study and offer
your comments. Comments received by August 15th will be
integrated into the
final printed document, however, comments after this date
are also welcome.
You can view and comment on this study online at
http://www.h
atii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ahds-pa/

To stay in touch with further developments at AHDS
Performing Arts, please
subscribe to the mailing list: AHDS-PERFORMINGARTSJISCMAIL.AC.UK.


Prof Seamus Ross
HATII University of Glasgow
&
Sheila Anderson
Executive Director
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)

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