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Mellon Grant Funds Digital Video Archive of World Music International News May 2004 Mellon Grant Funds Digital Video Archive of World Music ndiana University Bloomington’s searchable database for research During this initial development interdisciplinary Department of and teaching. The Mellon grant has phase, the primary goal of the I Folklore and Ethnomusicology, been supplemented by additional archive is to create a functioning one of the nation’s oldest, is interna- support from both universities, digital repository and delivery sys- tionally recognized for the quality of bringing the total to $1.4 million. tem via the Internet that will contain its faculty, curriculum, and resources The project, which began with a approximately 150 hours of digital for studying the interrelationship Mellon planning grant in video and accompanying metadata— between music and culture. In 2001–2002, will run through annotations and analyses of the con- June 2003, it celebrated the fiftieth January 2005. EVIADA is an ambi- tent by the scholars who made the anniversary of the first Ph.D. in tious collaboration between experts recordings—that will adhere to folklore ever to be awarded in the in ethnomusicology, archiving, video archival standards. The videos them- United States. production, digital technology, and selves are musical performances intellectual property. recorded within the past two decades Co-principal investigators of the by scholars working in African project are Ruth Stone, director of (Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, the Ethnomusicology Institute, and Malawi), Mexican, and Native Lester Monts, senior vice provost American cultures, to name a few. for academic affairs and professor EVIADA is grappling with a of musicology at the University of number of the following issues Michigan, both internationally that are important to ethnomusicol- known researchers who first met ogists: preservation, annotation in Liberia some 20 years ago when procedures, access, intellectual they were doing fieldwork, collecting property, pedagogy, and technology. and videotaping different musical Digital preservation requires the traditions in the country. In the development of a systematic model Yakuba Jalo playing the fle at his home intervening years, that country has and interface that can be used by all in Bamako, Mali, 1999. (Still image from video by Cullen Strawn) undergone almost continuous civil potential depositors and users to the strife. A few years ago, Stone and archive. Annotation entails develop- Monts met again and recognized the ing procedures and time-coded con- That pioneering spirit is alive immense significance and well 50 years later as the of their earlier record- department’s Ethnomusicology ings—as historical doc- Institute embarks on an innovative uments of cultural life project that is among the first of and as potentially rich its kind. In collaboration with material for research researchers from the University of and teaching, but Michigan and with major funding recorded in a from the Andrew W. Mellon medium—magnetic Foundation, the team behind the videotape—that has institute’s Ethnomusicological Video a notoriously poor for Instruction and Analysis Digital archival life. They felt Archive (EVIADA) project is creat- a sense of urgency not ing an online digital archive of video only to preserve their Chitsime Mvano Ladies Choir at the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Limbe, Malawi, 2003. (Photo by recordings of musical performances own materials but also Clara Henderson) from around the world, with a those of other scholars. continued on page 19 1 International News May 2004 Macedonian University Educators Train at IU Campuses ne of Indiana University’s Trustees and the OSCE offi- most significant efforts to cial most responsible for the O provide assistance and founding of this unique training to tertiary institutions in university. In his acceptance developing countries is the IU– speech, van der Stoel stressed Macedonia Linkage Program with the importance of promoting the South East European University interethnic contacts and (SEEU) in Tetovo. A multilingual, improving interethnic multicultural institution, SEEU was relations: “If this country established in 2001 through the col- succeeds in creating a multi- laborative efforts of the Organization ethnic society based on for Security and Cooperation in equal rights on the one hand Europe (OSCE), the U.S. Agency for and respect for each other’s identity Secretary-General Dennis International Development (USAID), on the other, it can enter a new era Farrington to discuss the future of the Open Society Institute, and other of peace and progress.” IU’s relationship with the university. see Inter- international donors ( The award ceremony also The visit afforded the IU team an national News , April 2002 and marked the graduation of SEEU’s opportunity to meet SEEU students December 2003). IU’s linkage pro- first three students to complete their and observe classes taught by Paul gram with SEEU focuses on faculty studies at the university. Foster, IU’s onsite partnership and curriculum development, partic- Representing IU at the cere- manager, and Dini Metro-Roland, Moya Andrews ularly in such areas as business, infor- monies were , vice an IU doctoral candidate in the mation technology, and education. chancellor and dean of Faculties at School of Education. While SEEU is Patrick O’Meara The program is funded by USAID IUB; , dean for still a young institution and has Emita Hill and administered by IU’s Center International Programs; , many challenges to face, the IU visi- for International Education and chancellor emerita of IU Kokomo; tors were impressed with how far Charles Reafsnyder Development Assistance (CIEDA). and , associate the university has progressed since From November 19 to 21, a dean for International Programs and its founding in 2001. delegation from IU attended the CIEDA director. During the visit, the Throughout 2002–2003, the Dick Goldman awarding of an honorary degree at IU team met with , linkage program brought SEEU edu- Max van der SEEU to Ambassador head of USAID/Macedonia; SEEU cators to three different IU campuses, Stoel Aljadin Abazi , chair of SEEU’s Board of Rector ; and including administrators, faculty, and degree program candidates. In addition, two dozen educators came in late summer on four short-term training programs provided by a supplementary USAID–funded World Learning grant that initiated them into types of community out- reach activities they could take back to SEEU. At IUPUI, the Department of Communication Studies hosted the visit of Michel Bourse, SEEU’s dean of the Faculty of Communication At the awards ceremony are (left to right) Paul Foster, Moya Andrews, Dick Sciences and Technologies, and Goldman (USAID/Macedonia), and Patrick O’Meara. continued on page 42 2 International News May 2004 New Grants Expand School of Medicine’s IU–Kenya AIDS Program or the past 14 years, more than address the disease that was Health. The new USAID grant will 500 Indiana University School ravaging Kenya and the rest of allow IU and Moi physicians to F of Medicine (IUSM) students, sub-Saharan Africa. increase the number of HIV-infected residents, and faculty have partici- According to Robert M. people they treat in Kenya from pated in the IU–Moi Exchange Einterz, IUSM’s assistant dean for 2,000 to 15,000 and to establish Program by teaching at the Moi international programs and director HIV treatment and prevention pro- University Faculty of Health of the IU–Moi program, a $1 million grams in two additional rural com- Sciences (MUFHS) and serving at grant from the Bill and Melinda munities over the next five years. In the Moi Teaching and Referral Gates Foundation last year was addition to this grant, the program Hospital in Eldoret in west- will receive $500,000 in ern Kenya. In return, more drugs to treat AIDS than 60 MUFHS students “If successful, we will realize the patients. The grant from and faculty have come to dream of a true academic response to the CDC will establish HIV IUSM in Indianapolis to treatment and prevention attend classes, teach, and Africa’s pandemic: outstanding patient programs in four more conduct research. care, teaching, and research.” rural communities and Although the IU–Moi —Joseph Mamlin allow the IU-Moi program Exchange Program began as to treat another 12,000 to a general medicine program, 15,000 people at those sites. co-founded by IUSM professor of important in establishing the pre- The Academic Model for the medicine Joseph Mamlin, the pro- vention component of the IU–Moi Prevention and Treatment of HIV/ gram has since attracted residents program. “They were the first major AIDS (AMPATH) program was cre- and faculty from a number foundation to really invest in the ated by IUSM, the Moi Teaching and of disciplines including pediatrics, concept of a model HIV control pro- Referral Hospital, and MUFHS in anesthesia, surgery, and radiology. gram that hosted care, research, and Kenya. The AMPATH concept Faculty and students from the IU training and that could be expanded attracted USAID funding after suc- statewide medical education centers; and replicated,” says Einterz. cessfully enrolling and treating more the IU Schools of Nursing, Since that grant, other individu- than 1,500 patients using modern Dentistry, and Allied Sciences; as als and private foundations have well as participants from Purdue contributed to the program. This continued on page 13 University, Brown University, and February, the pro- University of Utah have participated gram received
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