Performing Arts And Digital Humanities – From Traces to Data

Contents

• Foreword ix Bruno BACHIMONT
• Preface xiii
• Introduction xxxv
• Chapter 1 . The Digital Trace: From Data to Metatrace 1
• 1.1. Tracing the ephemeral 2
• 1.1.1. An impossible history? 3
• 1.1.2. Relying on traces 4
• 1.2. The digital trace 8
• 1.2.1. Digitized traces 9
• 1.2.2. Born digital traces 10
• 1.2.3. Heterogeneous, numerous and fragile traces 11
• 1.3. Transforming traces into data 14
• 1.3.1. Analog trace and digital trace 14
• 1.3.2. From trace to data: the datatrace 16
• 1.3.3. Metatrace 22
• 1.4. Performing arts data 25
• 1.4.1. Performing arts data landscapes 25
• 1.4.2. The Semantic Web paradigm 27
• 1.4.3. Transforming the living archive into data 33
• 1.5.
• Conclusion 38
• Chapter 2 . Preserving the Impermanent 41
• 2.1. Note: scoring the representation 42
• 2.1.1. Notation of the performing arts 43
• 2.1.2. Scoring 49
• 2.1.3. From autography to allography: scoring digital works 52
• 2.1.4. The performing arts, between allography and autography 57
• 2.2. Diachronic documentation: reconnecting with the process 62
• 2.2.1. Making digital traces last 63
• 2.2.2. Taking the creation processes into account 66
• 2.3. Annotating: redocumentarizing traces 69
• 2.3.1. Digital as an annotation practice 71
• 2.3.2. The special case of video recording 73
• 2.3.3. Intra- and inter-documentary approaches 76
• 2.3.4. MemoRekall, a video annotation tool for redocumentarizing traces 79
• 2.4. Denote/connote: artistic intent and datatraces 83
• 2.4.1. Articulating close and distant reading 83
• 2.4.2. Rekall 90
• 2.5.
• Conclusion 95
• Chapter 3 . Writing the History of the Performing Arts 97
• 3.1. Sources and resources 99
• 3.1.1. Theater studies and digital humanities 100
• 3.1.2. Scrutinizing 105
• 3.1.3. Going back to the source 110
• 3.2. Exposing traces 113
• 3.2.1. Linking 114
• 3.2.2. Structuring 119
• 3.2.3. Reconstructing 124
• 3.3. Analyzing performing arts data 127
• 3.3.1. History 129
• 3.3.2. Literature 135
• 3.3.3. Shows 141
• 3.4.
• Conclusion 147
• Conclusion 149
• Glossary 153
• References 163
• Index of Names 179
• Index of Terms 183