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Wow!! Can't wait to get online and check it out on my (trumpet fanfare here) NEW iPad Mini 3! Cheers! Alan On 05/04/15, Sally-Beth MacLean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF > > ?On the Road Again: A digital forum in the history of entertainment > and culture? <https://otra.library.utoronto.ca> > > This new online resource integrates four scholarly projects on a > modular extensible platform, to support the ability to make linkages > between different aspects of performance history over time, and to > work interactively with other theatre historians on creating new > scholarship. The forum has been built using the open-source Drupal > platform and Openlayers GIS mapping through partnership with the > University of Toronto Libraries (Digital Library and Web Services > Group - for database design and sustainability), and the Department of > Geography (GIS and Cartography Office ? for interactive mapping.) The > forum includes two previous digital database projects in the history > of itinerant performance, while adding two more: > > 1) Records of Early English Drama (REED): Patrons and Performances > <https://reed.library.utoronto.ca> > 2) Juba Project (Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain) > 3) Fringes of Show Business in Canada West: Performance culture in > Southern Ontario to 1919 (new) > 4) The Exhibition and Reception of American Popular Film in Canada (new) > > We thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada > for the Connections grant that made our work possible. The partners > participating are listed on the individual project sites. > > -- Alan Somerset, Professor Emeritus, Western University. Canada REED Website: http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/index.html Patrons website: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/