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Multimedia Project on Aleksandar Aca Popović: Digitizing Avant-Garde Theatre in Serbia

This multimedia project focuses on the works of Aleksandar Aca Popović, a key figure in introducing avant-garde theatre to Serbian stages. With the involvement of students from the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, the project aims to create a comprehensive digital archive of scarce materials related to Popović's contributions. Supported by various institutions, this initiative includes 293 pictures, 91 articles, and hours of audio and video recordings. It utilizes technologies like SMIL and XML for multimedia presentations, ensuring wider access to this important theatrical heritage.

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Multimedia Project on Aleksandar Aca Popović: Digitizing Avant-Garde Theatre in Serbia

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  1. Multimedia projectAleksandar Aca Popovic Ana Vukadinović Bojana Mitrović Igor Valjević Miloš Vojinović Miloš Đurić

  2. Project motivation • Why AcaPopovic? • One of our most important playwright • He brought avant-garde in Serbian theaters • Material in digital form is scarce

  3. Project involvement • Students from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade – Department of Computer Science and Informatics • Students from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade – Department of Library Science • Coordinated by prof. Gordana Pavlović-Lažetić and prof. Cvetana Krstev

  4. Project supported by • Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade • Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade • Other institutions: • Serbian Museum of Theater Art, Belgrade • Radio Belgrade • “Jovan Tomić” Library, Nova Varoš • Cultural Center“Jovan Tomić“, Nova Varoš • Library of Yugoslavian Film Archive • Library of Serbian National Theater, Novi Sad

  5. Project supported by • Other institutions: • ŠabacTheater, Šabac • ZvezdaraTheatar, Belgrade • Steria’s pozorje, Novi Sad • Yugoslavian Drama Theater, Belgrade • Bitef Theater, Belgrade • Radio Television of Serbia, Belgrade • National Theater, Belgrade

  6. Project facts I • 15 Institutions involved in the project • 293 Pictures of: • Portraits • Theatre performances • Theatre bills • Other • 91 Articles from about 10 different newspapers: • Politika, Nin, Borba, Svet, etc.

  7. Project facts II • 130 minutes of audio recordings • Radio drama • Biography • Other • 8 hours of video recording • Excerpt from different plays • Interview • Other • 5Gb gigabytes of datain Multimedia database

  8. Technologies used - SMIL • SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language • W3C recommendation for making Multimedia Presentations • Markup language • Support for different media players (Adobe Media Player, Windows Media Player, etc.) • Support for combining with XML and XML based standards (SVG animation, RSS, other…)

  9. Technologies used - SMIL • Content parallelization • Absolute automatic control of the time manipulation over content representation • SMIL file contains the following:     * The layout of the presentation    * The timeline of the presentation    * The source of the multimedia elements

  10. Technologies used -XML • XML - Extensible Markup Language • Picture description in the gallery

  11. Multimedia project“Aleksandar Aca Popović” DEMO

  12. Challenges and difficulties • Scarce material • “Jovan Tomić” Library, Nova Varoš • Cultural Center“Jovan Tomić“, Nova Varoš • Library of Serbian National Theater, Novi Sad • ŠabacTheater, Šabac • Steria’s pozorje, Novi Sad • State of materials • Extracting data from collected material

  13. Future development • Multimedia database • Storage – done • Access – done • Retrieval – in process • Data mining? • Collecting and procesing new material for this project, to get more detailed view of his work. • Continuation of cooperation with the Faculty of Philology on digitalization of other playwrights– supported by Serbian Museum of Theater Art

  14. Thank you! Q&A

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