2001 SCOPA Grant

Digitization of Theater Materials
Pilot Project

FINAL REPORT

The goals for this project were to (1) survey theater-related visual materials in collections around campus; (2) select items for digitization;
and (3) if possible, also selected a text for encoding into XML following Text Encoding for Interchange guidelines.

Only the first goal was accomplished, because there is much more material and at more locations than anticipated. Consequently, the survey was completed later than expected (August 2001) and required more student work hours, exhausting the SCOPA funds. Thus no money was available to actually digitize materials, or to pursue text encoding.

The end product of the grant, then, was a database of collections with theater-related visual materials, with many entries describing sample items.
I have not yet explored the possibility of making this database publicly searchable (e.g., on the Web), but this may be of interest.


Tobin Nellhaus
Librarian for Drama, Film and Theater Studies
Research Services and Collections
226 Sterling Memorial Library
432-8212
tobin.nellhaus@yale.edu