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VIRTUAL LISTENING PRACTICE GUIDED BY JASON CAMLOT AND TOMASZ NEUGEBAUER
Listening to and Describing Video of Literary Performance
This listening practice is designed to be a collaborative consultation about the approach SpokenWeb which will take in its Content Field metadata description of video assets that document literary events, activities and performances. While we now have a well-developed grammar for our Content Field description of audio assets that we listen to, we are interested in having a discussion about what we see when we watch and listen to literary performance, and what we want to include in our descriptions of such AV documents, with the aim of discovery and use by scholars, students and the general public. We will swiftly outline our practical goals and context (as it pertains to producing descriptive metadata) at the outset of the practice, and provide a few possible principles and frameworks for approaching description of literary video to get things started, but the majority of our time will be spent looking, listening and discussing what we see and hear, and sharing ideas about how we might go about describing video documentation of literary events to archival and other ends. We will use a selection of examples from the Alan Lord Ultimatum collection as case studies for our guided practice.
