Transcript AHDS Digitisation Workshop

Arts and Humanities Data
Service
RSC London, November 2004
Alastair Dunning
Arts and Humanities
Data Service Executive
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King’s College London
How is the AHDS Organised?
• Established in 1996
• AHDS Executive (King’s College, London)
• AHDS Literature, Languages and
Linguistics (Uni. Of Oxford)
• AHDS History (Uni. Of Essex)
• AHDS Archaeology (Uni. Of York)
• AHDS Performing Arts (Uni. of Glasgow)
• AHDS Visual Arts (Surrey Inst. of Art and Design)
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© AHDS
• Funded by the JISC and the AHRB
What does the AHDS do?
• Advises on the creation of digital data
• Collects, preserves and distributes highquality digital resources for research and
teaching
• These resources are free for educational
and private use
• Generally available online
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• Today’s presentation focuses on AHDS
Performing Arts, AHDS Visual Arts
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Designing Shakespeare
• 40 years of Shakespearian performance at
London and Stratford
• http://performingarts.ahds.ac.uk/designingshakespeare
• Cast lists and play details, photographs of
performance, video and audio interviews with
directors and designers, virtual reality
recreations of sets
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• Nearly 1100 performances catalogued
• Search and browse capabilities
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Designing Shakespeare
• Three ready-made tutorials
– Politics and Performance of Place - looking at a
two productions that use visual metaphor
– Character and Representation - looking at
transgendered casting in four Shakespearean
productions
– Audience, Actor and Space - looking at responses
to the performance space at Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre.
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• Tutorials at
http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/designshake/design/
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Richard II – Differences in Space
Pimlott / Wilmington,
RSC, 2000
Barton / Napier, RSC, 1974
Macbeth – Differences in Context
Albery / Laing,
RSC, 1996
Davies / Dyer,
RSC, 1983
Other Performing Arts Collections
• Details of theatrical performances at
– Birmingham Repertory Theatre Archive Database
– National Review of Live Art Reviews Database
– French Theatre resources in the 17th and 18th
centuries
• Other collections of note:
– Five Centuries of Scottish Music
– Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
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– Bach Bibliography Database
• http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk
AHDS Visual Arts
• 20,000 images available in fine art,
design, fashion
• http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
• Simple registration required – very basic
and completely free
• Images can be used for FE and HE
educational and private needs
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Other AHDS Visual Arts Collections
• Victorian Music
• Design Council Slide Collection
• Imperial War Museum
• London College of Fashion: College
Archive
• National Fine Art Collection
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• Spellman Collection of Victorian Music
Covers