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Creation Of The Database For The Don Wright Faculty Of Music's Opera Costume Collection, Ashley Carpenter
Creation Of The Database For The Don Wright Faculty Of Music's Opera Costume Collection, Ashley Carpenter
Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference
Over the course of my USRI, I created a database to organize and display the costume collection from the Don Wright Faculty of Music Opera Program at Western University. This process consisted of a series of phases with a focus on digitizing the costume collection so that it is accessible and sustainable. Extraction, sorting, creation, development, photograph, organization, and consultation constituted the progression of the new costume database. The extraction phase featured the removal and assessment of the costumes. This provided a visualization of the costume collection in its entirety and thus, guided the creation of the database. The sorting …