A team from Indiana University (IU) and the University of Michigan is creating an online digital archive of video recordings and a searchable database for research and teaching.

A team from Indiana University (IU) and the University of Michigan 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) Digital Archive.

An $875000 grant from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation has been complemented by additional support from the pair universities, bringing the total funding for the frame to $1.4 million. The EVIA Digital Archive throw out will focus on video recordings made on ethnomusicologists as a means of capturing a multitude of cultural practices, including style of dresss ritual practices and dance.

The EVIA Digital Archive generally is the only project of its kind that will garner up copy, annotate and preserve ethnomusicological video materials forward the Web for use from educators, researchers and musicians onward a global scale. The Smithsonian Institution is undertaking a similar project

IU and the University of Michigan are uniquely positioned to lead the plan since both institutions are charter members of Internet2--an advanced network that can deliver high-quality digital video to computer around the world. the two institutions also are home to resources like as the IU Archives of Traditional Music, the largest university-based ethnographic entire and video archive in the United States, and the University of Michigan Media Union, which will provide special equipment exigencyed 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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