GloPAC

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The Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC), an international consortium of individuals and institutions committed to using innovative digital technologies to create substantive multimedia resources for the study of the performing arts and its history. With Cornell as the lead university, this group has created the Web-based Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD), a database of images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects, each accompanied by elaborate technical and descriptive information structured through a metadata schema specifically created to accommodate the particular descriptive needs of performance materials. The database, available through a public interface(www.glopac.org),is designed to grow and GloPAC continues to populate it with new objects and associated information,providing a rich resource for students and scholars in many humanities fields. GloPAC's second project is the development of Performing Arts Resource Centers(PARCs): Web-based interactive and interpretive learning environments that express the contents of the database, combining scholarly content with technological innovation. Each PARC will have a specific focus, which may be cultural (Japanese), temporal (the 18th century), genre or thematically oriented (puppetry, gender in theatre), or audience oriented (teens). The Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center (JPARC) is currently under construction www.glopad/JPARC (http://www.glopad.org/jparc/.