Global Contact Improvisation Archive (GCIA)
“What CI materials exist and where can they be found?”
The goal of the Global Contact Improvisation Archive [NS1] project (GCIA) is the creation and development of a digital archival structure that lists (and in some cases houses) materials addressing diverse subject areas within Contact Improvisation.
We envision the Global Contact Improvisation Archive as nonhierarchical and multilingual, offering a source for information and inspiration by making materials about CI known, categorized, searchable, and thereby available.
The RRP Archive team is currently developing the structure for a Global Contact Improvisation Archive. We are in the process of defining the core elements (title, subject, description, creator, source, etc.) as well as working on format categories (article, thesis, book, poem, interview, etc.), subject categories, and a tagging system—aiming for a transparent, easy-to-use structure.
The Global Contact Improvisation Archive will include the following item types (alphabetical order)
• Collection – aggregations or groups of resources
• Dataset – lists, tables, charts and databases
• Interactive Resources – dvd roms, forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat functions, or virtual reality environments, video tutorials
• Moving Images – animations, slide shows, films, television programs, videos, or visual output
• Physical Objects – inanimate, three-dimensional objects or substances
• Service – CI Online Stores, CI Calenders,….
• Sound – recorded speeches or sounds, audio recordings of interviews, lectures/talks, discussions, classes, panels
• Still Image – paintings, drawings, graphic designs, photos, plans, maps, and drawn scores
• Text – academic theses, articles, books, college term papers,critiques/ reviews, essays, exercises, flyers, interviews,journals, legal documents, letters, newsletters, notebooks, poems, portraits, reviews, scores -- published and unpublished
• Text & Image – resources consisting primarily of a combination of words for reading and still images
The GCIA will either house the materials listed above or indicate where they are housed, pointing people directly to the sources. In this way, authors can retain their right to define access procedures to their materials.
In order to create a context for the most diverse materials and perspectives, the GCIA team decided to follow the guidelines developed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), which is used by many major archives worldwide.
Once the structure of the GCIA website is set up, a platform will immediately exist for sharing resources and making materials easily searchable. Anyone will be welcome to list their CI materials in the Archive database (and eventually upload some of them, space permitting) by entering the information directly into the GCIA website, or through links on collaborating CI websites.
Through the synergy of collaboratively gathering materials, we wish to foster research, critical discourse, a spirit of inquiry and curiosity, and inspire further production of information, supporting the ongoing development of CI.
Recent developments of the GCIA project
In March 2012 Nancy Stark Smith (Contact Quarterly), Dieter Heitkamp (University for Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main) and Norbert Pape (contactencyclopedia.net) met and exchanged with other archive projects (Motion Bank, Siobhan Davies Archive, Pina Bausch Archive…) in the framework of the 3rd Dance Education Biennale 2012 Frankfurt am Main.
Participation of CB and DH in the European Video Dance Heritage Conference 2013
Participation of DH in two national meetings of dance archives and dance studies people in Berlin.
David’s technical help to develop a test website.
Invitation to participate
If you would like to support this global CI sharing initiative as a tech consultant, translator, communicator/promoter or in any other way, we’d love to hear from you!
The goal of the Global Contact Improvisation Archive [NS1] project (GCIA) is the creation and development of a digital archival structure that lists (and in some cases houses) materials addressing diverse subject areas within Contact Improvisation.
We envision the Global Contact Improvisation Archive as nonhierarchical and multilingual, offering a source for information and inspiration by making materials about CI known, categorized, searchable, and thereby available.
The RRP Archive team is currently developing the structure for a Global Contact Improvisation Archive. We are in the process of defining the core elements (title, subject, description, creator, source, etc.) as well as working on format categories (article, thesis, book, poem, interview, etc.), subject categories, and a tagging system—aiming for a transparent, easy-to-use structure.
The Global Contact Improvisation Archive will include the following item types (alphabetical order)
• Collection – aggregations or groups of resources
• Dataset – lists, tables, charts and databases
• Interactive Resources – dvd roms, forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat functions, or virtual reality environments, video tutorials
• Moving Images – animations, slide shows, films, television programs, videos, or visual output
• Physical Objects – inanimate, three-dimensional objects or substances
• Service – CI Online Stores, CI Calenders,….
• Sound – recorded speeches or sounds, audio recordings of interviews, lectures/talks, discussions, classes, panels
• Still Image – paintings, drawings, graphic designs, photos, plans, maps, and drawn scores
• Text – academic theses, articles, books, college term papers,critiques/ reviews, essays, exercises, flyers, interviews,journals, legal documents, letters, newsletters, notebooks, poems, portraits, reviews, scores -- published and unpublished
• Text & Image – resources consisting primarily of a combination of words for reading and still images
The GCIA will either house the materials listed above or indicate where they are housed, pointing people directly to the sources. In this way, authors can retain their right to define access procedures to their materials.
In order to create a context for the most diverse materials and perspectives, the GCIA team decided to follow the guidelines developed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), which is used by many major archives worldwide.
Once the structure of the GCIA website is set up, a platform will immediately exist for sharing resources and making materials easily searchable. Anyone will be welcome to list their CI materials in the Archive database (and eventually upload some of them, space permitting) by entering the information directly into the GCIA website, or through links on collaborating CI websites.
Through the synergy of collaboratively gathering materials, we wish to foster research, critical discourse, a spirit of inquiry and curiosity, and inspire further production of information, supporting the ongoing development of CI.
Recent developments of the GCIA project
In March 2012 Nancy Stark Smith (Contact Quarterly), Dieter Heitkamp (University for Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main) and Norbert Pape (contactencyclopedia.net) met and exchanged with other archive projects (Motion Bank, Siobhan Davies Archive, Pina Bausch Archive…) in the framework of the 3rd Dance Education Biennale 2012 Frankfurt am Main.
Participation of CB and DH in the European Video Dance Heritage Conference 2013
Participation of DH in two national meetings of dance archives and dance studies people in Berlin.
David’s technical help to develop a test website.
Invitation to participate
If you would like to support this global CI sharing initiative as a tech consultant, translator, communicator/promoter or in any other way, we’d love to hear from you!