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
The genesis … On the 19th of May 2021, we came together for a Live Lab to present the work of the second year students at the Ryerson School of Performance. In a ‘normal’ year, the final assignment would be a written piece but this is not a normal year. In response to the different […]
To celebrate International Dance Day no the 29th April 2021, DCD held a Live Lab showcasing their fabulous collection of dance material especially as related to Atlantic Canada. Many members of the Canadian dance community were present including Kittiwake Dance Theatre, Live Art Dance and DanceWorks. We even stretched down to New York and across […]
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. In this post that it is: energy consumption, and its partner in crime, CO₂ equivalent emissions. Energy Consumption of web sites […]
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 […]
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? […]