Digital Dance Archives (DDA): cross-collection interactivity and enhanced user engagement with dance resources

数字舞蹈档案项目（DDA）将通过公共互联网门户网站传播有关舞蹈和编舞的多媒体档案材料，以提高用户参与度并鼓励互动。三方将利用萨里（国家舞蹈资源中心）和考文垂（西沃恩·戴维斯数字档案馆）现有的档案资源，进行两个不同的数字开发。这两个学院分别是萨里大学的舞蹈、电影和戏剧研究系（NRCD）和视觉、语音和信号处理中心（CVSSP），以及考文垂艺术与设计学院的冰岛学院（ICELab）。两个相互关联的数字试点将在DDA项目中工作：生产一个基于视觉内容的可搜索平台，以及一个支持在线学习和协作的交互式工具。DDA项目旨在将以前不同的档案统一在一个可持续的数字平台下（未来有可能增加更多的档案）。网站门户的主要功能将是：1。通过网络将DDA的可视化内容流式传输给不同范围的用户。该内容将采用舞蹈表演的图像和视频以及与这些表演相关的物品（例如服装）的形式。2. 支持定向搜索，以及通过新颖直观的搜索界面浏览/发现DDA内容。通过建立和共享档案内容的虚拟剪贴簿，促进在线互动和协作。交互将通过两项独特的技术创新来增强：我们将使用基于内容的图像检索（CBIR）技术实现档案的“视觉搜索”。内容不仅可以使用元数据标签的传统文本搜索，还可以使用视觉外观进行索引。例如，用户可以搜索存档表演中拍摄的服装或物体的类似实例，或搜索“类似”舞蹈，或包含特定旋转或手势的舞蹈。在这样做的过程中，我们在不同的多媒体格式之间架起桥梁，并将索引扩展到与舞蹈内容相关的元数据术语之外（不需要手动生成额外的元数据来支持这种新颖的搜索）。一种新颖的互动工具将使内容的“虚拟剪贴簿”成为可能。该工具为用户提供了注释、创建和策划对数字馆藏的回应的便利，从而为交流思想提供了一个潜在的网络/社区。使用Web 2.0技术，这个“学习工具”将演示如何生成舞蹈档案内容，使用户能够对舞蹈内容进行个性化的解释。总之，DDA项目代表了表演艺术数字存档的可访问和可持续的解决方案。它将提供一个与存档舞蹈互动的单一接触点，利用独特的技术，为内容发现、学习和合作研究提供新的途径。

The Digital Dance Archives project (DDA) will disseminate multimedia archive material on dance and choreography via a public internet web portal to enhance user engagement and encourage interactivity. Three parties will work on two distinct digital developments using existing archival resources at Surrey (the National Resource Centre for Dance) and Coventry (the Siobhan Davies digital archive). These are the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre Studies /NRCD and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at Surrey and ICELab, School of Art and Design at Coventry. Two inter-related digital pilots will work across the DDA project: producing a searchable platform based on visual content, and an interactive tool supporting online learning and collaboration.The DDA project aims to unify previously disparate archives under a sustainable digital platform (with the future potential to add further archives). The main functions of the web portal will be to:1. Stream the DDA's visual content to a diverse range of users via the web. This content will take the form of images and video of dance performances, and objects (e.g. costumes) related to those performances. 2. Enable both directed search, and the browsing / discovery of DDA content via a novel and intuitive search interface.3. Facilitate online interaction and collaboration, by building and sharing virtual scrapbooks of archival content. Interaction will be enhanced through two technological innovations unique to this proposal:We will enable 'visual search' of the archive using content based image retrieval (CBIR) technologies. Content will be indexed not only using traditional text search of meta-data tags, but also using visual appearance. For example, a user may search for similar instances of a photographed costume or object within archived performances - or search for 'similar' dances, or dances containing a particular twirl or gesture. In doing so we bridge between different multimedia formats, and broaden the indexing beyond meta-data terms associated with dance content (no additional meta-data is manually generated to enable this novel search).A novel interactive tool will enable 'virtual scrapbooking' of content. The tool provides users with the facility to annotate, create and curate responses to the digital collections, thus providing a potential network/community for exchange of ideas. Using Web 2.0 technologies, this 'learning tool' will demonstrate how dance archival content can be used generatively to enable users to develop personalised interpretations of dance content.In summary, the DDA project represents an accessible and sustainable solution to digital archiving of the performing arts. It will provide a single point of contact for interacting with archived dance, leveraging unique technologies that enable new routes to content discovery, learning and collaborative research.