DCD Labs – with Community Manager, Lorraine
Lorraine Finch, the community member for DCD Labs on the early stages of development of DCD Discover.
International Dance Day & Atlantic Canada
To celebrate International Dance Day no the 29th April 2021, DCD held a Live Lab showcasing their fabulous collection of dance material especially as related to Atlantic Canada.
Sustainable web technology, Part 2
Following on from our previous article about sustainable web development where we spoke about the long term sustainability of a web site, there’s another aspect of sustainability which we must develop for: Environmental Sustainability.
DCD Live Lab – Oral Histories
There are roughly 1,100 hours of oral history recordings at Dance Collection Danse [DCD]. Many of these feature Canada’s early teachers and performers who are no longer with us. Their stories provide insight, humour, and revelations that could not have been captured any other way. The Live Lab began with Amy Bowring [Executive and Curatorial…
Developing sustainable web technology
If you’re a developer, it’s pretty easy to create a simple new web application. It’s much harder to maintain it over time, and ensure that others can take over its management and development with minimal disruption. Now we get to the impossible: how do you build a system that non-technical people can manage and sustain?…
DCD Discover Development. What have we been up to?
The DCD Labs team has been very busy as you can see … If you have a look at DCD Discover you will find that the development includes minor changes: A denser item view by putting less space around each item and more items per row Showing how many media elements an item has when…
DCD Labs showcases its work to the Institute of Conservation
Our work is featured by the Institute of Conservation. Read all about it here: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/lorraine-finch-acr-other-things-that-conservators-do.html
DCD Labs – 20 Highlights of 2020
1. DCD Labs launched, July 2020 Over a third of our community joined us for the launch of DCD Labs. (A two-year development program to connect users with the Dance Canada Danse [DCD] archive.) ‘We never start with code. We ask what people want first.’ The approach is ‘Less technology, and more focused on contact.’ …
Machine learning for DCD
For the last few months we’ve been building a prototype system for storing and managing DCD’s collection. In recent years, all the cataloguing has been done manually into a simple online database. It’s organised and reliable, but its manual nature means that importing new content is arduous and labour intensive. To date, around 4,300 items…
Discover what we’ve been up to with DCD Discover
Five LiveLabs in and what’s been happening with DCD Discover? What’s new? What’s changed? What is DCD Discover? DCD Discover is the open, accessible archive of DCD material, and with your involvement will become the open and accessible go-to source for material from the DCD. Development so far. Central repository and an ark …One of…
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