Developing enduring digital infrastructure to meet the research needs of the Creative Arts.
Australia’s culture is extensive, dynamic and ever-evolving, and so too is its cultural data. Significant collections of our cultural data have now been amassed, across the performing arts, visual arts, film, literature and in other fields.
Working with four of the country’s major cultural datasets - AusStage, Design & Art Australia Online (the DAAO), data held by Creative Australia and collections from ACMI – Australian Creative Histories & Futures will seek to strengthen their technical and social architectures as well as develop their interoperability.
This is crucial not only for the researchers who study our cultural history, but for the policy makers, artists and authors who will shape our futures.
Australian Creative Histories & Futures pays tribute to and acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People have been the custodians of the arts in their many forms since the First Sunrise. For over 60,000 years, they have been the original storytellers, artists, and performers, shaping the Land and the People who have cared for these stories.
Song, dance, and art carry the cultural lore that has been passed down over generations and is the legacy this project hopes to honour.
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Australian Creative Histories & Futures is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/3t64-zy41). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).