THEATRE
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
SYMPOSIUM
"On with the Show”: Creating Digital Resources for a Global Audience
The Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC) is creating an online multilingual, multimedia
database, which will enable scholars and theatre practitioners alike to access detailed, authoritative
information about performing arts from around the globe. In addition we are creating Performing Arts
Resource Centers that will provide interpretative materials in a variety of interactive formats, drawing
on and augmenting the material in the database.
Karen Brazell, GloPAC Director, will offer an overview of GloPAC’s initiatives and explain the
challenges of our current development project, which is supported by a three-year grant from
the IMLS. The goals of the grant are 1) to develop a metadata schema for the performing arts,
which is truly crosscultural and capable of accommodating a variety of multimedia formats,
2) to create efficient and effective templates for describing and accessing a broad range
of information and image types, and 3) to fully implement the Global Performing Arts Database.
Formal partners in the IMLS grant are the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, St. Petersburg
State Museum of Theatre and Music, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum,
University of Washington Libraries, Museum of the City of New York, and Cornell University.
A list of other participating institutions and individuals may be found on our website www.glopac.org.
