Centre of Documentation and Museum of Performing Arts

Theatre School of Barcelona

New projects

Anna Valls. Director Berlin Joint Meeting 25th- 27th

Presentation

The Theatre School of BarcelonaCultural institution with a long history of training in the various specialities of the

performing arts and research, promotion and dissemination of theatre.

Centre of documentation and Museum of Performing Arts ( MAE)Collections:Historical books: 70,000 ( including 4,000 manuscripts) Other books 30,000Set design(sketches, costume designs and scale models): 16,000Puppets: 437Costumes: 600 Posters: 5,000Photographies: 200,000Theatre programmes: 100,000

Book Collection

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Manuscripts, rare editions...

Set design collection

Scale model of “Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner. 1899, Liceu Theatre. Barcelona

Set designer: F. Soler-Rovirosa

A sketch of a set design by Sigfrid Burmann.1969

Puppet collection

Didó. AnglèsHarry V. Tozer

Costumes

Play: Doña Rosita la Soltera Play:La Bayadera

Actress:Margarita Xirgú Dancer: Tortola Valencia

Theatre posters and programmes

Project: Digital Museum

GOAL: To have all information and digital images of our museum collection published on internet by the end of 2008

SOFTWARE: ContentDM Digital Collection Management Software / Developed by DINEMA; distributed by OCLC

WHY CONTENTDM?Easy to implementNot expensive Other Catalan institutions have already bought this softwareNot new, a lot of projects on Internet

Project: Digital Museum

STARTING POINT Access data bases with information and digital images of the following collections:

puppets and set designs

Access data bases with information but without images on the following collections: posters and costumes

PRESENT SITUATIONThe software has been adapted.We have created some collectionsWe have moved our puppet collection and a part of our set design collection We have created a collection of the best manuscripts We are moving the rest of set design and poster collection in July

We have digitalised the poster collection and we are preparing the poster data base to be moved .

Public presentation: October 15th

STILL TO BE DONE

Create costume, picture and photography collections

URL ( not official yet) : http://museu.institutdelteatre.cat

DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR VIDEOS

GOAL: Digital repository of catalan performing arts productions

STARTING POINT

Theatre School collection: 2,500 videos of student projects

Catalonia National Theatre. 600 videos

“Mercat de les Flors” Dance Centre : 400 videos

Various formats: DVC pro, UMATIC, Betamax, MiniDVD, VHS

PRESENT SITUATION:

Project design finished

Budget approved

DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR VIDEOS

Repository Server Linux & PostgreSQL

Streaming ServerWindows 2003 Server

Digital preservation system

Digital libray ServerLinux

Digital preservation sistema Security copies

Postgre SQLContentDM

Metalib

DSPACE

Switch o

Router

Firewall

Network Theatre School

Internet

Connection network Theatre School

Autentification

OpenLDAP

ProxySquid

Thank you.

Anna Valls

E-mail: vallspa@institutdelteatre.cat