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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
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…

Let’s make sure that our critical content is not marooned on data islands
The sustainability of digital projects varies widely. Let’s have a look at two examples. A. Quick-fix, short-term, unsustainable Typically, commercial web projects are created to fulfil some short-lived need (a few years or less). They are built on proprietary internal structures (e.g. internal databases) and interfaces (both web and API) that can be varied at-will…
DCD Labs showcases its work to the Institute of Conservation
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DCD Lab – Searchability
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