Here at UO, CAS Connections is an online-first magazine that showcases innovative research, teaching, and public scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences. The LSDB team has known for months that the writers at Connections were putting together a piece about our project and the new work enabled by the NEH grant. When Michele, Emma, and I first sat down for an interview with writer Jenny Rice, though, we were expecting to provide a bit of background and human interest for an otherwise ordinary press release. None of us could have predicted how the grant termination in April would change the narrative. I’m grateful to Jenny and her whole team for putting together such an in-depth story and multimedia package about the project’s impacts so far, and our hopes for the future. Click through the preview below to read on — and be sure to check out the bonus feature at the bottom, which shows the work involved in unpacking a single performance record from the database.
