In addition to website restructuring, there have been a number of minor database changes behind the scenes. In order to lay the foundation for future development work, the LSDB team has added constraints to codify the relationship between database tables. In the process of adding these constraints, we identified transcription problems where events were listed without the correct theater code. We revealed thirteen events with incorrect metadata about the theaters they were performed at, which should now be correctly identified in database searches. From a user perspective, these will result in small changes to performance entries, such as the example seen below.
These minor changes were designed to set up a pipeline for larger developments that were in the works. These developments are now being threatened by cuts to our NEH funding. For those who are interested in reading more about these database structural changes, please visit our GitHub repository.