DraCor and Performance Studies

[ingoboerner]

At the DraCor Summit we discussed how DraCor can be expanded to turn it into a useful resource for performance studies.
Things, that could be linked to:

• Works (lrmoo:F1)
• Characters (Performance studies cover which actors play which roles in which performances); roles in performances could be linked to our characters/ re-use character URIs/IDs
• First Performance (we have date of first performance --> implicit performances)

When linking out, we could find performances based on the works in DraCor

[ingoboerner]

Sometimes (in rare cases) we also have information on which actor played which role, e.g. from
https://github.com/dracor-org/gerdracor/blob/main/tei/schuetz-die-katze-laesst-das-mausen-nicht.xml

<castList>
        <head>Personen:</head>
        <castItem><role>Gürge</role>
          <actor>Herr Thomas.</actor></castItem>
        <castItem><role>Röse</role>
          <actor>Mad. S. Albrecht.</actor></castItem>
        <castItem><role>Knallerpaller</role>
          <actor>Herr Beinhöfer.</actor></castItem>
        <castItem><role>Schnaps</role>
          <actor>Herr Costenoble.</actor></castItem>
        <castItem><role>Wirth zur dürren Henne</role>
          <actor>Herr Bröckelmann.</actor></castItem>
        <castItem><role>Bauern.</role></castItem>
      </castList>

There are some plays in GerDraCor, for example, that include the <actor> tag

@lehkost looked this up:

auffenberg-der-loewe-von-kurdistan.xml
kotzebue-das-kind-der-liebe.xml
kotzebue-die-indianer-in-england.xml
schuetz-die-katze-laesst-das-mausen-nicht.xml

[juliajbeine]

@ingoboerner, @lehkost, we could link the actors to their ISNI or VIAF ids, as some colleagues have suggested at the DraCor Summit.

[lb42]

Most lacy plays include a castList, which would make it easy to list actors and roles. But the information about actors is usually very sketchy and may be misleading .