AHDS Performing Arts
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AHDS Performing Arts was a part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service
providing digital resources to the performing arts in the United Kingdom
, and it was based in Glasgow
. It supported research, learning and teaching in the areas of music, dance, theatre, radio, film, and television with high quality and dependable digital resources. It did this by facilitating the curation and long term preservation of digital data, and by promoting good practice in data creation and in access to and use of digital performing arts collections. From October 2005 until the end of March 2007 AHDS Performing Arts was based in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
(HATII) at the University of Glasgow
.
Many AHDS Performing Arts collections are freely available online for both educational and private use.
Other AHDS Subject Centres
Film, television and broadcast
Theatre
Dance
Live / Performance Art
Arts and Humanities Data Service
The Arts and Humanities Data Service was a United Kingdom national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities...
providing digital resources to the performing arts in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, and it was based in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
. It supported research, learning and teaching in the areas of music, dance, theatre, radio, film, and television with high quality and dependable digital resources. It did this by facilitating the curation and long term preservation of digital data, and by promoting good practice in data creation and in access to and use of digital performing arts collections. From October 2005 until the end of March 2007 AHDS Performing Arts was based in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute is a research and teaching institute at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. HATII undertakes innovative research in Information, Communication, and Technology in the cultural heritage and arts and humanities sectors...
(HATII) at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
.
Many AHDS Performing Arts collections are freely available online for both educational and private use.
See also
- Arts and Humanities Data ServiceArts and Humanities Data ServiceThe Arts and Humanities Data Service was a United Kingdom national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities...
(AHDS)
Other AHDS Subject Centres
- AHDS History
- AHDS Visual Arts
- AHDS Literature, Languages and LinguisticsAHDS Literature, Languages and LinguisticsAHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics is one of the subject centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, supporting digital research in the arts and humanities in the UK. AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics is hosted by the Oxford Text Archive at Oxford University....
- AHDS ArchaeologyAHDS ArchaeologyAHDS Archaeology was one of the subject centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, which closed in March 2008, its role was to support digital research in the arts and humanities in the UK. AHDS Archaeology was hosted by the Archaeology Data Service at York University which continues to be...
External links
Current Collections being preserved by AHDS Performing Arts
Music- Bach Bibliography Database
- Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Annotated Catalogue
- Cecilia
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
- ECOLM (Electronic Corpus of Lute Music)
- Fabulous Paris
- Five Centuries of Scottish Music
- Harry Greatorex Music Hall Database
- HOTBED (Handing on Tradition By Electronic Dissemination)
- Imago
- Imago Lecture Notes
- James Madison Carpenter Collection
- Pitt Rivers Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
- Scottish Music Information Centre Catalogue
- Techniques for the analysis of expressive gesture in musical performance
Film, television and broadcast
- BBC Radio 4 Analysis Database
- Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture Catalogue
- British Artists' Film and Video Database
- 'Carmen' Filmography
- Independent Local Radio Collection
- Moving History
- North African Film and Filmmakers Dictionary
- Scottish Screen Archive Catalogue
- Screen Search
- This Week
- TV Times Digitisation Project
Theatre
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre Archive Database
- Designing Shakespeare
- National Review of Live Art Reviews Database
Dance
Live / Performance Art