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The East London Theatre Archive will create an invaluable database, helping to address the lack of digital resources available in the performing arts sector. Led by the University of East London, the project is driven by a strong partnership between higher education, the heritage sector, local theatres and community organisations. This partnership brings together unique collections, academic excellence and vast experience and expertise in the field of digitisation.

The main objectives are:

• The aim of the project is to develop an accessible database of digital objects that will be of value for teaching and research in higher and further education, not just in performing arts but also in other academic disciplines. It will also highlight the importance of the East End in the history and development of the performing arts.
• To create 15,000 digital objects from the collections held by the partners, including playbills, posters, documents 3D objects and multimedia.
• To provide appropriate metadata and cataloguing.
• To identify appropriate technical and metadata standards
• To enrich the collections with authoritative contextual essays.
• To develop an appropriate structure and web interface to make the collections accessible.
• To build and maintain a successful partnership

For further information on the project please contact:

Mark Hedges; Tel: 020 7848 1970 Email: firstname.lastname@ahds.ac.uk.

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