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
NEW RELEASE! Visit ShopDCD and purchase your copy of "Still With Us - Stories of HIV/AIDS and Dance in Canada." Edited by Christopher House Dismiss
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
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…
We looked at the ten agents of deterioration in our blog ‘Caring for Photographs: What’s Causing my Photographs to Fall Apart?’ and examined how they cause your photographs to deteriorate.
Since its earliest days, DCD has used technology to preserve and share the collection. From co-founder Lawrence Adams’s desktop archiving system in the 1980s, to publishing e-books in the 1990s, to virtual exhibits in the 2000s.
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?…
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…
In UX design it goes without saying that you need to reach out to new communities all of the time. You can watch the great session between DCD Labs and ConCode (Conservators in Coding). Find out more about ConCode
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