Abstract
DocPerform is a multi and interdisciplinary research project based at City, University of London. Led by members of the Department of Library & Information Science, it comprises scholars and practitioners from the fields of performing arts and library & information science. The project concerns conceptual, methodological and technological innovations in the documentation of performance, and the extent to which performance may itself be considered to be a document. The collection of papers in this special issue of Proceedings from the Document Academy are selected from the second DocPerform Symposium, held at City, University of London, 6–7 November 2017. This editorial introduces those papers and provides disciplinary and historical context for DocPerform.
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Library and information science (LIS) is the discipline that seeks to understand the nature of documents, alongside the processes of their creation and communication, or documentation
The emergence of interactive and participatory documents brings further into view the existing convergence of library and information services with the work of galleries, museums and archives, as each of these institutions and practices are concerned with the use of digital files to store, represent, and preserve material and born-digital items, especially those pertaining to cultural heritage, and including those whose nature is intangible or transient, such as performance
Summary
Library and information science (LIS) is the discipline that seeks to understand the nature of documents, alongside the processes of their creation and communication, or documentation. The phrase ‘being immersed in a good book’ takes on a new meaning as we create VR versions of books, and films, games, historical events, news, documentaries and performances. These technologies allow us to create new types of documents, and at the same time provide us with new methods of documentation; new ways to record, archive, preserve, access, replay and re-experience documents (in the widest sense), whether physical or digital. Documents described as partial or semi-immersive, Robinson (2016), already exist in number In this editorial, we suggest the term ‘protoimmersive’ to describe documents that offer semblances of reality. There are many ways, in which we could imagine using immersive documents: for entertainment, learning, training, observing, understanding, exploring, and notably for experiencing or re-experiencing events, such as performance
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