About me
Dan Heather is the Digital Archives Manager at the National Theatre, UK, a role that includes oversight of recordings of all plays performed across the theatre’s three stages since 1995. The archive also includes broadcasts delivered via the National Theatre’s global cinema programme NT Live, its streaming platform National Theatre at Home and its curated schools offer National Theatre Collection, alongside content delivered via YouTube and other social media platforms. His role includes the long-term preservation and reuse of digital archive material in both non-commercial and commercial contexts, with management of the National Theatre’s digital preservation solution Preservica. Recent projects have included the development and enhancement of a user-facing platform for accessing content and initiating a transformative programme to enhance descriptive metadata for almost 100,000 digital images covering over 60 years of theatrical activity.
