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The Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis

(EVIA) Digital Archive project ...

...seeks proposals from scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, folklore, anthropology and dance studies wishing to become participants in the project and depositors to the archive.
 

Participation entails submitting approximately ten hours oforiginal, unedited, field video recordings for inclusion in theArchive, and a commitment to annotating this collection during an intensive two-week Summer Institute to be held in Bloomington, Indiana from June15-28, 2008.

Candidates whose proposals are accepted will receive a $2,000.00 honorarium upon completion of their annotations by the designated deadline. The EVIA Digital Archive will provide travel to the Summer Institute as well as food and accommodation during the Institute.

For a fuller description of the project, the evaluation of applications, the ingestion process, the Summer Institute, intellectual property and ethical issues, and the time commitment involved please read our 2008: Call for Depositors at http://www.indiana.edu/~eviada.

If you are interested in participating in the EVIA Digital Archive Project as a depositor and participating in the 2008 Summer Institute please complete the application form found at this link. Proposals should be accompanied by a five-minute video sample on VHS cassette or miniDV; if you foresee difficulty in providing a video sample, please contact us to discuss other options: eviada@indiana.edu or call 812-856-1323. Application forms can be submitted by email or by regular mail. Hard copies of the form and video sample tapes

must also be postmarked by February 19, 2007 and mailed to thefollowing address:

EVIA Digital Archive Project

2008 Depositor Applications

Herman B. Wells Library E951

1320 E. 10th St.

Bloomington IN 47405 USA

Successful candidates will be notified by April 16, 2007 and at that time will be given instructions for submitting their video materials for immediate digital ingestion and archiving. Please contact us if you have any questions about the project, your collection, or your proposal.