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Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Choreometrics

Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Choreometrics. The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland. What is Choreometrics ?. What are the imaginable possibilities of Choreometrics ? The website:   www. reimaginechoreometrics.com Where did this project take us? Overview.

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Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Choreometrics

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  1. Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Choreometrics The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  2. What is Choreometrics? • What are the imaginable possibilities of Choreometrics? • The website:  www.reimaginechoreometrics.com • Where did this project take us? • Overview The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  3. “Unless we take action now, what remains of human cultural variety will vanish” – Allen Lomax • History • Criticism The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  4. Present Interviews with: Betsy Peterson, Library of Congress Todd Harvey, Library of Congress Anna Lomax Wood, Association for Cultural Equity in NY ForrestinePaulay, in NY Visiting Collections: Library of Congress Seeing artifacts and data The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  5. Present • OBJECTIVES: • Develop a glossary of terms for a great breadth of video analysis • Construct a website www.reimaginechoreometrics.com The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  6. Future • http://culturalequity.org/dev/gjb-tree.html • Association of Cultural Equity- Beta Global Song Tree. • Cantometrics The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  7. Possibilites Accessibility Searchability Repatriation

  8. Tangibility • Comparability: Kinovea Searchability: • Tagging and Meta Tagging • The film company British Pathédigitized over 90,000 films and clipsand made them searchable • Digitization services: • ex. Colorlab- specializing in 16mm films The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  9. Beginning Again, through Digitization Former sponsors: • National Endowment for the Humanities • National Institute of Health • Rockefeller Foundation • Ford Foundation • National Science Foundation We now need help over the final, massive hurdle: the price of digitization. The Future of Information Alliance, Presented at University of Maryland

  10. The Future Possibilities of Choreometrics If this massive digitization initiative is funded, then we will see each other more clearly through dance. If the film elements can be digitized, then the Global Jukebox can be accessed and the dances returned to those who dance them.If this 20th century project can be realized through 21st century technology, our century will better know human history through dance.

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