2021 was a great year for DCD Discover. Development moved forward apace, collaborations grew in strength and number, and community engagement continued giving great insights and comments about your needs and wants for DCD Discover. What is DCD Discover? DCD Discover is the open digital archive for Dance Collection Danse [DCD]. It is the product […]
Search is a big part of Discover, but it’s more complex than you might think. There are many ways of implementing search systems, so lets have a look at what’s involved. Exact matches Like its name suggests, a search using exact matches will only find things that match the search term exactly, so if you […]
Newfoundland Dance Project. Jennifer Dick’s Collection on DCD Discover Where we started … From April-July, 2021 we conducted a pilot project of One-on-One Live Labs through Zoom. This gave us an opportunity to introduce DCD Discover to Independent dance artists across Canada and beta test the site. This approach was taken to better understand: How […]
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. To recap, the ten agents of deterioration are: Humidity Temperature Light Chemical Pests Neglect Physical force Fire Water Theft and vandalism Now you know what […]
The DCD holds many thousands of photographs. We are responsible for their care and long term preservation. Over a series of blogs you can discover how we do this. In this blog we will look at what causes your photographs to fall apart by looking at each one of the 10 agents of deterioration. The […]
In Deep Dive into Copyright, Part 1 we looked at the issues and concerns that we have around copyright. One of the areas we covered was identification of the potential harms that we fear could occur if we get copyright wrong. These are: We do something wrong and get thrown in jail Don’t want to […]
What is DCD Discover? DCD Discover is the open digital archive for Dance Collection Danse [DCD]. It is the product of DCD Labs, a user focused iterative process to produce an accessible archive fit for the digital age. The intention with DCD Discover is that it is the repository for the archives for DCD AND […]
Copyright is not scary 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. At this point, most people want to run away and hide because they find the subject scary. The instinct is to […]
We’d like to open a conversation about how to engage with other social media content that practitioners are creating. There are hundreds of places where people post, ranging from personal blogs to Youtube to Instagram. This is mostly a curatorial question. One of the questions, in the age of the web, is who should curate? […]
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