yeats and the abbey theatre minute books (1904-1939), an example of layered partnership, cillian joy
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Yeats and the Abbey Theatre minute books (1904-1939), an example of layered partnership
Cillian Joy2 June 2016, CONUL
@cillianjoy@nuigdigital
Yeats and the Abbey Theatre minute books (1904-1939), an example of layered partnership
Cillian Joy, 2 June 2016, CONUL; @cillianjoy @nuigdigital
NUI Galway Library; Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance; Marketing and Communications Office; Abbey Theatre
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Yeats and the Abbey Theatre minute booksPartnersProject processImpact
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Abbey Theatre Digital Archive
Abbey Theatre Digital Archive
1 million+ items to digitise in 3 yearsAudio, video, photos, negatives, scripts, admin files, programmes, set/lighting designs, posters, press material …Priorities: access, discovery, and use
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NUI Galway Library
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NUI Galway Library
Yeats and the Abbey Theatre minute books
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Yeats
Focus on Yeats, publishing the books that were created during his time at the theatre (from its foundation in 1904 to his death in 1939). Fascinating behind the scenes views of the Abbey Theatre during the years of Yeats.- Insight into leading figures from Irish Literary Revival- The struggle for funding- Insights into a pre- and post-independence Ireland.
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Final product
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NUI Galway Library
Partners
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Partners
Partners
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Internal (NUI Galway)
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Centre for Drama,
Theatre, and Performance
Marketing and Communicatio
ns
External
Abbey Theatre
Partners: Project
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NUI Galway Library
Project manageme
nt
Technology
Methodology
Leadership
Centre for Drama,
Theatre, and Performance
Academic leadership
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Metadata
Finance
Marketing and Communicatio
ns
Marketing Web site
Press
Launch
Abbey Theatre
Content
Subject expertise
Marketing
Launch
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Process
Process: Project tasks; Library driven
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Marketing Web site• Library & Marketing
Transcription• Drama
Setup digital collection• Library
Prepare for ingestion (digital objects, metadata, and TEI)• Drama
XSLT and CSS for digital collection• Library
Preserve• Library
Ingest• Drama
Manage• Drama & Library
Promote• Marketing & all
Process: Technical
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Transcribe to TEI
Ingest object, TEI, and
metadata (MODS)
Apply XSLT and CSS
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Process: Technologies and tools
Fedora: provides the backend repository to store and manage all of the unique digital material.Islandora: provides functionality via modules to deal with different content types.Drupal: provides access to the site via a front end, access layer.Solr: provides the search functionality, including the functionality to ‘Refine’ your search.oXygen XML Editor: for TEI
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Impact
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Impact: Media
National radio interviews.Irish Times and Sunday Times highlighted the archive’s prefiguring of contemporary debates about gender.Irish Times feature by playwright Thomas Kilroy describing cultural impact of the archive then and now.
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Impact: Usage
Use for teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Specific use of archives in the MA in Theatre History and Archives.It is part of the curriculum for the Abbey Theatre Summer School from Villanova University.Academics from Lehman University, New York, described the online minute books as "invaluable for teaching a seminar on 1916".Positive feedback was received from archivists at the Beineke Library, Yale University, and the Roundabout Theatre Archive, New York.
More information contact: [email protected] NUI Galway Library
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