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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 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…
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
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…
Welcome to the archive. Actually no, go away!
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…
Deep Dive into Copyright, Part 1
Progress on DCD Discover is moving along at a rapid pace. Our development means that we are now at the stage where it’s time to have the conversation about COPYRIGHT.

