ethnoArc workshop
To dissiminate the results of the ethnoArc project to the archive community, the project organized a conference and a workshop in Bucharest on the 11th and 12th of July 2008.
What is ethnoArc?
A European Research Project within the 6th Framework Programme: Information Society Technologies - Access to and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Resources. A two-year project (Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2008), financed by the European Union.
Aims
ethnoArc aims at improving access to the wealth of Europe's ethno-musical cultural heritage. In particular, it seeks to contribute to preservation, connectedness and exploitation of some of the most prestigious traditional sound archives in Europe taking into account their specific shape given by the particularities of the founding context and history (reflected in the approach of the holdings, structure of recordings, state of preservation, information management tools, etc.) and without being hindered by their differences concerning technical formats, software architectures and metadata structure.
It encourages scholars, artists and others to use and valorize traditional folk music. It spurs modern, comprehensive and comparative research in ethnomusicology, anthropology and disciplines, and deepens and spreads awareness of and familiarity with the common European memory and identity.
Means
ethnoArc jointly developed a "linked archive": a common internet portal for distributed field collections from different sources, enabling access to resources for various application and research purposes. The system is designed to conduct multi-archive searches and to compare retrieved data. Creating the linked archive poses a substantial challenge not only to software development, but also to ethnomusicology and archive science: various systems of ordering in various languages had to be coordinated fo r correspondences and common categories, to enable automated "translation" - mapping - of rich metadata from one database to the other.
Partners
ethnoArc is run by an international network of seven partners. Among them there are four sound archives: Constantin Brăiloiu Institute for Ethnography and Folklore - Romania (IEF), Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Hungary (ZTI), Ethnological Museum Berlin - Department for Ethnomusicology - Germany (EMEM), Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire - Switzerland (AIMP), a technology developer: Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems - Germany (FOKUS) and two multidisciplinary research institutions: New Europe College . Fundaţia Noua Europă - Romania (NEC), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Institute for Advanced Study - Germany (WiKo).
Opening Doors
The present workshop represents the moment of conclusion of the two-year project. It intends to offer in-depth information about the project and to share the results and technological achievements with researchers, representatives from archives and other interested parties. The ethnoArc system and the .ethnoMARS. search tools, created by the ethnoArc team, shall serve as tools for other archives and researchers: ethnoArc strives to create a group of .ethnoArc system users. by providing the interested specialists with the new software and the related consulting. The ethnoArc software and its tutorials will be made available as OpenSource in June 2008.
The workshop includes an on-site demonstration of the search tool created by ethnoArc and report on test research already performed. It will provide ample opportunity for direct consultation with the software developers, and for exchange with project partners and other specialists from the field.
Detailed Programme
| Friday, July 11 NEC | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Anca Oroveanu (Scientific Director, New Europe College) |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Conference and Discussion: L'héritage de Brailoiu à Genève Laurent AUBERT (Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Geneva) (Conference in French with simultaneous translation in English) |
| Followed by | Buffet reception at NEC
Poster presentations of the ethnoArc project partners |
| Saturday, July 12 NEC | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction to the ethnoArc Project
Katharina BIEGGER, ethnoArc Coordinator (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Demonstrations of the Main Features of the ethnoArc System
and the Handling of the Search Tool (ethnoMARS)
Christian FUHRHOP (Fokus Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin) András MOROCZ (Zenétudomanyi Intézet, Budapest) Maurice MENGEL (Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnological Museum Berlin) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Reports on test research, using ethnoMARS
Florinela POPA, Anca STERE, Laura LEONTIUC (NEC Bucharest) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Informal discussion and personal information about the ethnoArc system
among ethnoArc project participants and technicians, programmers, archive representatives and archive users |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Workshop: Field Research and its Archiving. A Case Study Speranţa RĂDULESCU (NEC) in cooperation with Costin MOISIL, Florin IORDAN and Mirela RADU (Bucharest) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch at New Europe College |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Transfer to the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore .Constantin Brăiloiu. |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Conference and visit on-site: Constantin Brăiloiu and his work in Bucharest till 1943.
Presentation of the Archive of the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore Sabina ISPAS (IEF, Bucharest) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Press conference
Katharina BIEGGER (WiKo), Sabina ISPAS (IEF), Nicolae TEODOREANU (NEC) |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Concert - Taraf music
"Lăutari" from Romania |
Workshop venue
New Europe College, Bucharest (NEC), 21 Plantelor, 023971, Bucharest, Phone: (+4)021-3079910
Constantin Brăiloiu Institute for Ethnography and Folklore (IEF), 25 Tache Ionescu, 010353, Bucharest, Phone: (+4)021-3183900
Contact
Anca STERE (nec@ethnoArc.org)