Performance, preservation and policy: digital curation and preservation awareness and strategy in the performing arts Laura Molloy Digital Curation Centre HATII, University of Glasgow E: laura.molloy AT glasgow.ac.uk / @LM_HATII DPASSH, Dublin. Friday 26 June 2015
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Performance, preservation and policy: digital curation and preservation
awareness and strategy in the performing arts
Laura MolloyDigital Curation Centre
HATII, University of GlasgowE: laura.molloy AT glasgow.ac.uk / @LM_HATII
DPASSH, Dublin. Friday 26 June 2015
DC/DP skills development resources for the performing arts
Existing research and initiatives: • There’s not much• Mostly focused on research and practice
within institutional context– Notable exception: InterPARES
• Some fixed-term projects but little sign of uptake / routine inclusion in education
digital objects in the performing arts objects created
Respondent profile:• Small study (not representative of the entire
professional sector)• Currently working in UK• Self-defined artforms• Most work in multiple artforms• 8/12 self funding; 9/12 public / charity funded
Practitioner focused study: selected findings
Digital object (DO) creation and use:• Widespread: 11/12 create and all (12/12) use• 10/12 report valued specific use for preserved
DOs = economic benefit
Practitioner focused study: selected findings
‘Preservation’ of performance work:• 9/12: uncertainty displayed re. ‘preservation’• All believe practitioners en masse should
preserve (at least in some contexts)• 11/12 believe they preserve own work• 8/12 put things in a cardboard box• 7/12 conflate creation and preservation of
documentation
Practitioner focused study: selected findings
Access to DOs created by self and others:• 9/12 rate access to digital collections
‘somewhat’ or ‘extremely’ important to their workflow
• 8/12 expect their DOs to be available in perpetuity / as long as desired
• 10/12 in favour of access by other practitioners for research
Practitioner focused study: emerging themes
• No relationship between artform and level of DC/DP skill / knowledge; or between creation of born-digital work and DC/DP knowledge
• PA practitioners: active in creation and use of DOs– In favour of access to DOs for community of practice– Expect DOs to exist in perpetuity– BUT low levels of DC/DP awareness and skill
= suggests awareness and skills gap across community of practice