East London Theatre Archive

The East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) is a digital theatre archive based at the University of East London, in London, England.[1] The ELTA contains 15,000 digitised objects[2] including images, papers, photographs and artefacts.[3] The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) provided £500,000 funding to support the ELTA digitisation project.[4][5]

ELTA Digitisation Project

The ELTA was funded by JISC to address the lack of digital resources that covered the history of theatre and music halls in East London, UK.[6] The digitisation project undertaken by ELTA began on 24 March 2007 and was completed on 27 February 2009.[7] The ELTA currently (2011) holds a range of theatre related digital assets that date from 1827 to the present day.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "East London Theatre Archive". University of East London. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Sykes, Jean. "Large-scale digitization: the £22-million JISC programme and the role of libraries". UKSG. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Sykes, Jean. "The East London Theatre Archive" (PDF). The JISC Digitisation Programme. London School of Economics: Research Online. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Digital services for a digital world: adapting academic libraries to a digital environment". SCONUL Autumn Conference 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  5. ↑ Barnett, Emma. "East London launches theatre archive". The Stage News. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "The East London theatre archive". Joint Information Systems Committee. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  7. ↑ "ELTA: East London Theatre Archive". King's College London. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  8. ↑ "elta-project.org". The East London Theatre Archive. Retrieved 24 June 2011.

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