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]

In July 2018 the website was taken offline. As of 2020 it is still offline.

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 21 June 2022.
  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. Archived from the original on 24 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  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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