Towards Establishing Digital Archive for Contemporary Performing Arts

2004至2007年间，我们进行了以下研究。为了获得有关表演艺术录像如何存档的详细信息，主要是在欧美国家，我们在包括英国、法国和美国在内的几个地方进行了研究。我们不仅小心翼翼地获取有效信息，而且还发现了与这一过程有关的具体问题。我们致力于建立我们自己的当代表演艺术数字视觉档案，使用我们之前收集的与该项目相关的材料，同时我们尝试了几种更容易和更可用的方法来建立当代表演艺术的数字档案。我们联系了日本几家有兴趣收集和维护当代表演艺术录像的机构，与他们讨论了相关的法律和产权清理问题，以及获得公开档案的许可等问题。结果：1.对建立当代表演艺术录像档案的一些技术和法律问题，我们得出了一些有效和实际的结论。我们完成了为我们在伊布乔大学的小型实验档案馆挑选候选人(艺术家和作品)，并开始能够将大约300本书目数字化。在合作机构方面，我们与负责收藏的人员取得了联系，从而使我们有可能从国际角度看到关于建立当代表演艺术录像档案的一些更紧迫的问题，特别是在纳入我们在英国、法国和美国等国外收集的信息时。

Between 2004 and 2007, we have conducted the following research.1. To acquire detailed information about how video recordings of performing arts are archived, mainly in Euro-American countries, we conducted research in several places including the UK, France and the USA. We were careful not only in acquiring valid information but also finding concreted problems regarding the process.2. We worked on establishing our own digital visual archive for contemporary performing arts, using our own previously collected material relevant to the project, while we attempted at several experiments on the easier and more available ways to establish a digital archive for the contemporary performing arts..3. We contacted several institutions in Japan interested in collecting and maintaining video recordings for contemporary performing arts, and discussed with them some pertinent issues such as legal and property rights clearance, acquiring permission to make the archive public and so on.As a result:1. We came to certain valid and practical conclusions regarding some technical and legal problem in establishing an archive for video recordings of contemporary performing arts.2. We finished selecting candidates (artists and works) for our small experimental archive at the University of lbkyo, and came to be able to digitize about three hundred titles.3. In terms of collaborating institutions, we got in touch with personnel responsible for the collection thereby making it possible for us to see some of more pressing issues regarding an establishment of an archive for video recordings of contemporary performing arts from an international perspective, especially when incorporating information we gathered abroad such as in the UK, France and the USA.