ORCID
Arden Kirkland: 0000-0001-5257-0257
Document Type
Article
Date
2015
Keywords
costume history, fashion history, collection management, open access, digital archives, collaboration
Language
English
Disciplines
Library and Information Science | Museum Studies
Description/Abstract
The recent increase in online costume history resources has provided scholars of dress with fresh sources of information for inspiring and validating their research. The best digital archives consider the needs of their users in creating systems that make it easy for more users to access the greatest amount of relevant information. Users of online costume history resources have specific needs that should be addressed, both for internal users (organizing and entering information) and external users (finding information). This paper follows a panel presentation at the 2014 Symposium of the Costume Society of America, on the subject of digital initiatives for sharing collections of historic costume underway at individual American colleges and universities. In the presentation and resulting discussions with CSA members, common concerns became evident, both for information seekers and managers of historic costume data. These concerns and potential solutions are addressed in the following paper.
ISSN
2042-1729
Recommended Citation
Kirkland, Arden, Kathi Martin, Marlise Schoeny, Kiki Smith, and Gayle Strege. 2015. “Sharing Historic Costume Collections Online.” Dress 41 (2): 107–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2015.1130394.
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional Information
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Dress in 2015, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2015.1130394.