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.’ …
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…
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…
Thank you to all of you who joined in with DCD’s first LiveLab. It was great to see so many new faces and such a mix of people, from students and archivists to dancers and academics. The LiveLab was led by Gavin Starks, Director of Dgen. Gavin started by explaining that the LiveLabs are an…
On the 13th of August 2020 we had the pleasure of a DCD Lab on Gatekeeping. It was great to see you. What a wide variety of experience you represented! Those attending included curators, DCD board members, administrators, volunteers, performers, producers, technologists, directors and archivists. The definition of Gatekeeping is “the controlling of access to…
We asked you to share your experiences of searchability, accessibility and gatekeeping. It prompted a strong response and provoked the most heartfelt comments. Clearly many of you have been adversely affected by these issues. Don Gillies Electronic Archives © We asked the question … Q. What are your experiences of searchability, accessibility and gatekeeping? You…
We asked you to share your thoughts in answer to the question: Q. If you could have anything from a digital archive what would it be? We were very pleased that so many of you responded and sent us your answers. Danse Cité Electronic Archives-Terminus 1 © I would love: 360-degree videos of performances Incorporation…
On Friday 31st July, we came together to enjoy a DCD Lab on the topic of Searchability. The DCD Lab was led by Amy Bowring and Beth Dobson. After the introductions, we set into the meat of the business, and were ably guided through such questions as: How easy do you find it to search…
Last week we demonstrated using image recognition services to help classify and describe images. The demo used two services: Google’s Vision AI, and Microsoft’s Cognitive Services. Both offer broadly similar feature sets: Tagging for subject matter Tagging faces within images Recognition and location of objects with an image Reading printed or handwritten text within images…
A tale of secrets, remoteness, gatekeeping and control. Let me introduce myself … I work in the archive world as the person who cares for the artefacts. I’m the person who puts them back together when they fall apart and slows down the speed at which they fall apart. I’m a conservator. I have a…
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