• ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus

    Project Director(s):
    Bradford Bennett
    Author(s):
    Bradford Bennett
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    Data Rescue
    Subject(s):
    Dance, History, Dance criticism
    Item Type:
    White paper
    Institution:
    University of Virginia
    Tag(s):
    NEH White papers, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, Dance history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62930
    Abstract:
    The ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus is a continuation of the ARTeFACT project which was developed at the University of Virginia as a means of enabling research into movement-based arts, specifically dance. The Movement Thesaurus is a major step toward providing access to movement-derived data. By using motion capture technologies we plan to provide a sophisticated, open source tool that can help make film searchable for single movements and movement phrases. The ARTeFACT Movement Thesaurus will contain over 100 codified dance movements derived from Western concert dance genres and styles from which we can develop algorithms for automatic search capabilities in film. By bringing together engineers, movement specialists, and mathematicians we will forge ahead to break new ground in movement research and take one step closer to the creation of an automated means of mining danced texts and filmed movement.
    Notes:
    The development and testing of a tool and accompanying thesaurus to make film searchable for dance movements.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial
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