The AHDS offers material designed to help you create the best possible digital collections. A full list of Information Papers, Guides to Good Practice, and Case Studies are available from the main AHDS site: Creating Resources.

Your first step should be to investigate this information and get in touch with the AHDS Performing Arts Services and Outreach Officer: d.abbott *AT* hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk or 0141 330 2758.

The following papers will be of particular interest to those undertaking collections for the Performing or Media Arts:

A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation: This Guide offers new perspectives on the role of new technologies in creative and collaborative practice in performance and is one of a series of titles commissioned and edited by AHDS Performing Arts at the University of Glasgow.

Creating Digital Performance Resources: This Guide covers various issues in related to digital resources in the performance arts. It examines the construction of web-based databases, digital archives, e-journals and teaching applications, all in the context of performing arts datasets. There is also a section on the use of electronic resources in the actual practice of performing arts.

Creating Digitised Audio Materials for use in Research and Teaching: This Guide aims to provide information and more specific technical guidance for those considering small or medium-scale audio digitisation projects. The guide is aimed at a non-technical audience and will be of interest to holders of analogue collections considering digitisation, managers who need enough information to plan resources for a digitisation project and those experimenting with or piloting digitisation on a small scale for research, teaching, promotion or creative projects.

Creating and Using Virtual Reality. This Guide to Good Practice concentrates on accessible desk-top virtual reality which may be distributed and viewed on-line via the World Wide Web. It is concerned with the variety of virtual reality models that may be produced and how to ensure that these can be delivered successfully to users and preserved for future reuse.

Full list of all AHDS Guides to Good Practice for all subjects

Audio Recording of Workshops and Seminars: Advice on recording an event such as a seminar or workshop.

Issues in recording digital performances: Notes written for those recording performances as part of an AHRC grant application

Full list of all AHDS Information Papers for all subjects

AHDS Case Studies - Performing Arts

AHDS Case Studies - all other subject centres