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
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 […]