Online digital video archive to be established. (Items of Interest).A team from Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. (IU) and the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. is creating an online digital archive of video recordings and a searchable database for research and teaching, entitled the Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA EVIA Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis EVIA Estes Valley Improvement Association (Estes Park, CO, USA) EVIA Electric Vehicle Industry Association ) Digital Archive. An $875,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. has been supplemented by additional support from both universities, bringing the total funding for the project to $1.4 million. The EVIA Digital Archive project The Digital Archive Project (DAP) was originally created as a means of sharing and preserving, in a digital format, episodes of the cult classic TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. will focus on video recordings made by ethnomusicologists as a means of capturing a multitude of cultural practices, including costumes, ritual practices and dance. The EVIA Digital Archive currently is the only project of its kind that will collect, copy, annotate annotate - annotation and preserve ethnomusicological video materials on the Web for use by educators, researchers and musicians on a global scale. The Smithsonian Institution is undertaking a similar project. IU and the University of Michigan are uniquely positioned to lead the project, since both institutions are charter members of Internet2--an advanced network that can deliver high-quality digital video to computers around the world. Both institutions also are home to resources such as the IU Archives of Traditional Music, the largest university-based ethnographic sound and video archive in the United States, and the University of Michigan Media Union, which will provide special equipment needed to facilitate the development of the digital archive. For more information about the EVIA Digital Archive, visit www.indiana.edu/~eviada. |
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