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Mining the databases of the Vlaams Theater Instituut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Dries Moreels
Dries Moreels*
Affiliation:
Vlaams Theater Instituut, Sainctelettesquare 19, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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In 1987 the Vlaams Theater Instituut (VTi) was born, as a result of the need to support and identify the ambitions of a new generation of performing artists in Flanders and Brussels, to document and investigate the context of this turbulent but artistically exceptional period, and to develop appropriate policy instruments for this burgeoning practice. Twenty years on, and the artistic and social context has changed radically. Initiatives that were played out on the fringes ‘back then’ we now see right at the centre of things. Today the need to keep documenting, investigating and reflecting is just as relevant as it was in those days. Moreover, the VTi can now explore the value of 20 years of metadata creation in new ways.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 33 , Special Issue 3: Special issue: Art libraries and art librarianship in Flanders , 2008 , pp. 39 - 43
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2008

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References

1. 1. MODS is the Metadata Object Description Scheme operated by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/.Google Scholar
2. Encoded Archival Description (EAD), http://www.loc.gov/ead/.Google Scholar
3. The Podiumkunstendecreet was the decree regulating the performing arts in Flanders. It was enacted in 1993 and replaced by the Kunstendecreet in 2006. Consult http://en.vti.be/booklet.metamorphoses.pdf for more background.Google Scholar
4. More work by photographer Phile Deprez can be found at http://www.philedeprez.be/.Google Scholar