Connecting stages
The European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) creates a considerable, and hithero missing, online archive for all performing arts in Europe.
This European-funded programme builds a network of important European performing arts institutions and archives, and publishes its collections on Europeana. It also provides innovative and unique solutions and tools to help performing arts institutions to enter the digital Europe.
ECLAP brings together for the first time plethora of relevant performing-arts records - such as videos, photographs, manuscripts-from major cultural institutions across Europe. Users can access this unique resource and its reach functionalities from unified European portal, via mobile devices if they so wish.
The ECLAP Consortium brings together leading European national performing arts institutions, universities and research institutes.
Our twenty partners combine their expertise and scientific minds to archive the ECLAP goals:
DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics, Uni¬versity of Florence, Italy, (coordinator)
AXMEDIATECH, Axmediatech Srl, 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 deFemmes de Créteil, France
FRD, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy
IKP, The Institute of Polish Culture University of Warsaw, Poland
ITB, Museu de les Arts Esceniques Institut del Tea¬tre 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
OSZMI, Hungarian Theatre Institute, Hungary
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
UPCOMING
ECLAP 2013 - 2nd International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
8-10 April 2013
ESMAE/Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Porto, Portugal
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ECLAP - FOURTH ECLAP EVENT 2012
Performing Arts Digital Collections:
ECLAP - Connecting Stages. Best Practice Network.
Stage Heritage at your fingertips
14 November 2012
9am to 3pm
at the
National Theatre Museum of Slovenia
Mestni trg 17
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Registration form
INTRODUCTION
ECLAP, the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance, is the new online archive for all performing arts in Europe, co-funded through the ICT Policy Support Programme of the European Commission. For the first time, the collections of the most important European performing arts institutions and archives are available online through the ECLAP Portal, as well as through Europeana, the European digital library. ECLAP also provides innovative and unique solutions and tools to help performing arts institutions manage and make their collections accessible.
The workshop Performing Arts Digital Collections: ECLAP - Connecting Stages. Best Practice Network Stage heritage at your fingertips is the fourth in the series of international events planned by ECLAP.
It will take in Ljubliana, on 14 November 2012, organised by ECLAP consortium member MUZEUM Ljubljana in collaboration with the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia, the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and the support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS WORKSHOP EVENT
Raising awareness of ECLAP, its content and its tools
Presenting ECLAP to the Slovenian and East-European public
Enticing new content providers to become affiliated with ECLAP
Promoting and encouraging networking activities and collaborative work with stakeholders, scholars/experts etc. outside ECLAP Project
Informing decision and policy-makers in the performing arts, Chief Information Officers and Curation IT staff of salient challenges concerning the performing arts digital content and ECLAP.
SHIFT THEATRE I
Shift Theatre I platform which part is the international project The European Collected Library of Artistic Performance - ECLAP is finnancialy supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia.