Concorde at 40 - an online exhibition
Fri 16 Sep 2016
Concorde celebrates 40 years of music making this weekend with two concerts in Dublin. To mark this anniversary, NUI Maynooth MA Digital Humanities student Richard Breen, has put together an online exhibition on the ensemble as part of a research project which he carried out in CMC earlier this year. In this short post, he talks about the background to the project.
You can view the exhibition at concorde.cmc.ie.
Concorde40 is a project that seeks to catalogue and display artefacts and ephemera from the history of the Concorde ensemble. These digitised items represent the major milestones of the group’s career, and the gaps in-between. They provide the viewer with new insights and shared experiences with the group in a way that highlights an artistic progression and charts the development of the ensemble over the years.
The exhibition has been built with the help of Jane O’Leary, one of the founding members of Concorde, who has retained and cared for the physical items that will be digitally available in the collection. The exhibition has been created to not only display these artefacts to the public, but also serves as a means of preserving them digitally for archival use. As the artefacts are digitised, they are assigned appropriate metadata so that they are searchable and may be used as a pedagogical resource. As the project continues to grow and develop, more and more concert programmes, posters, photographs, and recordings will be added to the project with the aim of creating a shared cultural experience. The archive aims to both house and curate these artefacts in the form of digital exhibits, collections, and curated tours through various documents that will give the visitor an inside look into the very life of the group.
Concorde40 has been developed using omeka.org and has implemented Dublin Core metadata standards by way of digital curation.