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The Digital Dance Library Project

Envisioning an on-line resource of moving images of American dance

The Digital Dance Library Project was a planning and development initiative coordinated by The New Media Lab at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Launched in March 2002, the initiative explored the feasibility and potential of an online archive of moving images of dance: a core library of curated recordings of American dance, to be organized, digitized and distributed for educational purposes to appropriate institutional users—schools, colleges and universities, dance programs and dance companies, libraries and archives.

A team of principal investigators undertook the planning process, each concentrating his or her specific expertise on an area of concern—from content to technology to business models to intellectual property.

This web site contains information on this project, an open letter to the field, and a summary of the initiative's final report.

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Project Team

Project Coordinator
Alberta Arthurs, independent consultant

Dance Content: Researching and Reaching the Field
Sali Ann Kriegsman, researcher, author, consultant

Web Technology: Reaching the User
Stephen Brier, Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs
Co-Director, New Media Lab
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Business Model: Reaching the Goals
Andrew Taylor, Director
Bolz Center for Arts Administration
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business

Intellectual Property: Mapping the Legal Terrain
Jane Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law
Columbia Law School

June Besek, Esq.
Director, International Intellectual Property Program
Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts
Columbia Law School

Support and Advisory Team Members
Dan Arthurs, President, StreamingCulture
Melanie Hegge, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dawn Lille, Research Assistant
Susan Munnik, Market Research Consultant
David Noll, Chief Technical Officer, Public Digital
Cristina Yunzal, StreamingCulture