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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

Outline

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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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

Transcription

Metadata

Finance

Marketing and Communicatio

ns

Marketing Web site

Print

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: cillian.joy@nuigalway.ie NUI Galway Library

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