project: East London Theatre Archive (ELTA)

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Project start date: 2007-03 Project end date: 2009-02

The East London Theatre Archive provides online access to resources of music hall and variety theatres in London's East End during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Around 15,000 items are digitised and described, with supporting material commissioned to provide historical context. Resources come from the collections of V&A Theatre Collections, University of East London and parter organisations. The Centre for e-Research has created a repository to preserve the digital objects over time, and a bespoke website to allow access to the entire resource by researchers and the general public.

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Methods usedCategory
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
General website developmentData publishing and dissemination
Interface designData publishing and dissemination
PreservationStrategy and project management
Web browser scriptingData publishing and dissemination
Funding sources: 
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Source material used: 

Photographs, playbills, programmes, architectural plans, scripts, press cuttings and other printed material relating to theatre and music hall in London's East End from partner collections.

Digital resource created: 

Website allows searching and browsing of over 15,000 objects, with contextual essays.

Data Formats created: 
Data transformations for resource dissemination: 

Compressed JPEGS from TIFF masters, generate MODS from MARC and EAD metadata


Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
Centre for e-Research at King's College London
University of East London
Other institutions involved:
Hackney Empire
Half Moon Young People’s Theatre
Hoxton Hall
Theatre Museum
Theatre Royal Stratford East
Victoria & Albert M useum
Wilton’s Music Hall

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:Yvonne Klein, Rachel Graham, Zoe Brown, Philip Jones, Stephen Grace, Vijay Albuquerque, Richard Palmer
Other staff:
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Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordStephen Grace
TitleEast London Theatre Archive (ELTA)
Record created2010-02-02
Record updated2010-02-02 11:16
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2979
Citation of recordStephen Grace: East London Theatre Archive (ELTA). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2979> created: 2010-02-02, last updated 2010-02-02 11:16
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