ECLAP - European Collected Library of Artistic Performance - EN

ECLAP, European Collected Library of Artistic Performance, is a European project of theoretic and applied research for the development of Europeana, the digital library of the European Union. ECLAP, which is coordinated by Prof. Paolo Nesi from the department of Systems and Informatics of the University of Florence, focuses on Performing Arts and on the necessity to manage informatics problems (e.g. multimediality), librarianship (e.g. metadata) andlegal issues (e.g. copyright) that at moment can hinder the access to artistic works through Europeana.

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Name:

ECLAP, European Collected Library of Artistic Performance

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The project started in 2010 and was presented in Florence on the 7 of May 2012, during the first International Conference on Information Technologies and Knowledge of Performing Arts (Conferenza internazionale sulle tecnologie dell’informazione e della conoscenza per le arti dello spettacolo).

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Administration (structure, staff, representatives and collaborators):

The ECLAP consortium assembles main European performing arts institutions, universities and research institutes.

The core of the Consortium comprises 19 partners from 13 European countries, including the representatives of the main stakeholders in this field. Besides, ECLAP prices 17 new affiliated partners not only from Europe, but also from Russia, Chile and South Africa. All the partners join their knowledge to pursue the objectives of the project.

The Consortium has established three working groupsthat focus respectively on:

WG-A: Performing Arts Education and Training Tools
WG-B: Intellectual Property and Business Models for Content
WG-C: Digital Libraries Tools

 Partners

DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics, University of Florence, Italy, (coordinator)
AXMEDIATECH, AxmediatechSrl, Italy
Beeld en Geluid, (Sound & Vision), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
CTFR, Dario Fo& Franca Rame Archive, Italy
ESMAE-IPP, Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo do Porto, Portugal
FIFF-IRIS, Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France
FRD, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy
IKP, The Institute of Polish Culture University of Warsaw, Poland
ITB, Museu de les Arts Escèniques Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, Spain
BELLONE, La Bellone, House of Performing Arts, Belgium
MUZEUM, Institute of Art Production, Mediation and Publishing, Slovenia
NTUA, National Technical University, of Athens, Greece
ODIN, Odin Teatret, Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, Denmark
UCAM, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
UCLM, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha,Spain
UG, History of Art Department at the University of Glasgow, UK
UNIROMA, Centro Teatro Ateneo, Department of Performing Arts, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy,
UVA, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ARCHIBRAILLE, Associazione Culturale ArchiBraille, Italy
FFEAC, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le Arti Contemporanee, Italy
IG, Grotowski Institute, Poland 9
NInA, Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, The National Audiovisual Institute, Poland
DIGILAB, Centre for Research in Digital Arts and Humanities, Italy
Irtem - Istituto di Ricerca per il Teatro Musicale (Italy)
ANSC - The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Italy)
TeatroNapoletano - Teatro Napoletano (Italy)
AdDuasLauros - Ad DuasLauros (Italy)
DISAH - Department of Information Systems for Arts and Humanities, (Russia)
DigitalMeetsCulture - Digital Meets Culture (Italy)
Cielos - Festival Cielos del Infinito (Chili)
LiberLiber - Liber Liber (Italy)
BuenoCulturalAss - Bueno Cultural Association

 Affiliated partners

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
Web page on ECLAP.
Faculty of Arts Design and Technology, University of Derby, (UK)
University of South Africa, Pretoria (South Africa)

Venues:

Contacts:

The main contact is Prof. Paolo Nesi, from the Department of Systems and Informatics of the University of Florence. Email: nesi@dsi.unifi.it

Each ECLAP’s working group has a coordinator. Further information on the groups are available on the specific page of the website.

Official Website:

ECLAP e-library for performing arts.

Objectives:

The main objectives of ECLAP are:

Collect and make available, via ECLAP and Europeana, European most relevant performing arts contents (shows, lessons, teaching materials, etc., in the forms of videos, audio, documents, images, animations, playlists, annotations, interactive contents, etc.).

Create a stable and open network about the best practices of European performing art institutions, to help them to exploit digital content and to talk about new technologies and tools;

Provide the major performing arts institutions with solutions and services such as: content ingestion, metadata enrichment, content distribution, content aggregation into Europeana, IPR management, content channel visibility, play lists, annotations, multilingual semantic/fuzzy search queries, etc.

Provide solutions and services for a variety of users: teachers, students, performers, researchers, and performing arts lovers for edutainment, infotainment and entertainment.

Sectors of intervention:

Conservation, diffusion and development of Performing Arts.

Activities:

Research

Among the main objectives of the project there is the research of the "Best Practices" and the suitable instruments to preserve, spread and promote Performing Arts.

There are also working groups with specific research tasks:

WG-A: Performing Arts Education and Training Tools: is in charge of developing an educational outlet for the project, so that students and teachers can exploit its resources.
WG-B: Intellectual Property and Business Models for Content: analyses the best practices and the applications for the intellectual property and the business models for content.
WG-C: Digital Libraries Tools: studies the best practices and the instruments for Performing Arts digital libraries.

The research work is also promoted through a social network that allows the website’s users to create or take part to groups and forums of discussion and to comment, tag, valuate, share the contents, annotate audiovisual contents, etc.

Origin and history:

The archive was born as a project co-funded by the Ict-PspCip program of the European Commission. The project, that lasts three years, started in 2010 and is articulated in three stages: structural development, contents collection, and promotion.

The University of Florence (DISIT Lab, ECLAP coordinator, Paolo Nesi), the Centro Teatro Ateneo of the University La Sapienza in Rome, the theatre company Fo-Rame, the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale and more than other 25 international institutions have coordinated the project.

Currently the website comprises more than one million files (documents, video, images, texts, audio) but is constantly growing.

Those are some of the artists whose works are available on the website: Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Eduardo De Filippo, Martha Graham, Eugenio Barba, Umberto Eco, Vittorio Gassman, Carmelo Bene and Walter Murch.

Besides, ECLAP is integrated in a wider context of knowledge sharing and is part of Europeana, the European digital library.

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Publications

Events:

Events from 2010 to 2012

ECLAP 2012 Fourth Event, 14 November 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia
AGORA di Polis, 17-18 Luglio 2012; evento del Distretto beni Culturali e della Città Sostenibile, Firenze
Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Workshop ABF Challenges, 6 July 2012, Pisa
IMS 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society, 1-7 July 2012, Music Culture Identities, Rome, Città della Musica
ECLAP at CARARE workshop 24 May 2012, Mykonos, Greek.
ECLAP 2012 Conference, 7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy
2011: EVA/MINERVA 2011 - The 8th Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: ECLAP at EVA Minerva, Jerusalem
2011: ECLAP at Conference of RAI in Cosenza, Italia. Entitled: "RAI Servizi digitali per lo sviluppo territoriale":
2011: ECLAP at Stony Brook University Conference, Florence, October 2011
2011: ECLAP at the Italia degli Innovatori meetings in Cina, October/November 2011
2011: Performing Arts Digital Collections: ECLAP. Opportunities, Advantages Experiences, with the participation of Nobel Laureate Dario Fo& Franca Rame - 20 October 2011, Aula Magna, Sapienza, University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome
2011: ECLAP Internal Meeting 18-19 October 2011, Rome Italy, for training and progressi* ECLAP 2012 Fourth Event, 14 November 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia
AGORA di Polis, 17-18 Luglio 2012; evento del Distretto beni Culturali e della Città Sostenibile, Firenze
Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Workshop ABF Challenges, 6 July 2012, Pisa
IMS 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society, 1-7 July 2012, Music Culture Identities, Rome, Città della Musica
ECLAP at CARARE workshop 24 May 2012, Mykonos, Greek.
ECLAP 2012 Conference, 7-9 May 2012, Florence, Italy
2011: EVA/MINERVA 2011 - The 8th Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: ECLAP at EVA Minerva, Jerusalem
2011: ECLAP at Conference of RAI in Cosenza, Italia. Entitled: "RAI Servizi digitali per lo sviluppo territoriale":
2011: ECLAP at Stony Brook University Conference, Florence, October 2011
2011: ECLAP at the Italia degli Innovatori meetings in Cina, October/November 2011
2011: Performing Arts Digital Collections: ECLAP. Opportunities, Advantages Experiences, with the participation of Nobel Laureate Dario Fo& Franca Rame - 20 October 2011, Aula Magna, Sapienza, University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome
2011: ECLAP Internal Meeting 18-19 October 2011, Rome Italy, for training and progressing.
2011 October 2011, ECLAP at Europeana Tech, Vienna, Austria
2011 ECLAP at NEM 2011, Torin, Italy
2011 ECLAP First review meeting, 9 September, Luxemburg
2011 First ECLAP Workshop 9-10 June 2011, Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millenium, La Bellone, Bruxelles, Maison du Spectacle, Rue de Flandre 46, B-1000 Bruxelles
2011 May 23-24: ECLAP Training meeting, Athens
2011 March, Europeana Meeting in Vienna 28-29, Austria
2011 January, Verification meeting, Florence, Italy
2010 November, Specification meeting,. DE3., DE4.1, Florence Italy
2010 September Europeana Meeting, The Haugue
2010 September, Requirements Meeting, Rome, Italy
2010 July, Kickoff Meeting, Florence, Italyng.
2011 October 2011, ECLAP at Europeana Tech, Vienna, Austria
2011 ECLAP at NEM 2011, Torin, Italy
2011 ECLAP First review meeting, 9 September, Luxemburg
2011 First ECLAP Workshop 9-10 June 2011, Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millenium, La Bellone, Bruxelles, Maison du Spectacle, Rue de Flandre 46, B-1000 Bruxelles
2011 May 23-24: ECLAP Training meeting, Athens
2011 March, Europeana Meeting in Vienna 28-29, Austria
2011 January, Verification meeting, Florence, Italy
2010 November, Specification meeting,. DE3., DE4.1, Florence Italy
2010 September Europeana Meeting, The Haugue
2010 September, Requirements Meeting, Rome, Italy
2010 July, Kickoff Meeting, Florence, Italy

On the specific website page it is possible to find materials about the evnts (Programs, slides, pictures, etc.)  

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(Sources consulted in November 2012)

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Kind of file:

InteractiveResource

Object (category) from Thesaurus Pico Cultura Italia:

http://culturaitalia.it/pico/thesaurus/4.2#biblioteche_digitali

Object (category, tags) free text:

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The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale is responsible for the coordination of Working Group (C) on the Best Practices and instruments for Performing Arts digital libraries.