Live Archives

Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events is the title of a presentation delivered by Paul Stapleton at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts. The abstract is available here. A write up by Richard Lewis of Digital Representations of Performing Arts is available here. A different presentation under the same title will be delivered at DRHA 2007. Both presentations aim to contextualize and reflect on the recently finished research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events.

AHDS Performing Arts supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources related to music, dance, theatre, radio, film, television, and performance. AHDS-PA is currently undertaking research into what constitutes a digital record of a performance, how performances are/can be represented and archived, and how both data creators and users see these records being used in the future. The Arts and Humanities Data Service preserves digital data in the long term, promotes good practice in the use of digital data, provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies.

I’m 29 and have been working for the AHDS Performing Arts subject centre for about 18 months now. My background is in Theatre Film and Television (Glasgow University) and IT (also Glasgow University). I like singing and playing folk music (on an amateur basis, although I did make €3,000 busking around Europe in 2005) and sing with the Madrigirls. In terms of these workshops, I’m really looking forward to experimenting with issues of how live performances can be archived - and what ‘proper’ musicians see as the essential qualities which need to be preserved