Abstract
Clothing and artifacts preserve cultural memories which solidify an attempt to maintain life and evoke meaning. Because of this, society collects, preserves, observes, and learns from these significant artifacts. Historically, the responsibility to collect and preserve have been performed by museums. However, from the progression of technology, a new institution has become responsible for collecting and educating the public: the digital collection. This new entity provides a more advanced, highly specialized, and greater amount of information output to a wider audience than was previously available. From this historical understanding, I have created the pilot digital collection for the College of Wooster, as well as an accessible and efficient digital collection construction process.
Advisor
Seeds, Dale
Department
Theatre and Dance
Recommended Citation
Melrose, Julie, "An Eye For the Future: Digitalizing Costume Collections in the Twenty-First Century" (2011). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 259.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/259
Disciplines
Communication Technology and New Media | Fashion Design
Keywords
digital, costume, collection, archive, julie, melrose, garment, clothing, lorraine seckel, theatre, photography, next generation mellon grant
Publication Date
2011
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 2011 Julie Melrose