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Dr. Marta BustilloAssistant Librarian, Harry Clarke Studios Demonstrator Project Digital Resources and Imaging Services, Trinity College LibraryDublin (Ireland)
The Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection:A collaboration between a library, a national repository, cultural
institutions and the academic community
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities.
Library of Birmingham, October 29-30 2014
Panel 6: Visualizing the digital discovery
The Clarke Studios Demonstrator Project
Digitisation and cataloguing of Clarke Stained Glass Studios material held at the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin: http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie
Clarke Stained Glass
➢Stained Glass and church decorating business,
founded by Joshua Clarke (1858-1921) ca. 1886.
➢Continued by his sons Harry Clarke (1889-1931) and
Walter Clarke (1880-1930) after Joshua's death.
➢Became Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd. in 1930.
➢Continued after Harry Clarke's death in 1931.
➢Closed in 1973.
The Digital Repository of Ireland
DRI is a trusted digital repository for Humanities and Social Sciences Data
- linking and preserving the rich data held by Irish institutions, with a central internet access point
- Our Cultural & Social Heritage
http://dri.ie/
Attributed to Richard King: St. Brendan the Navigator. Colour design for unidentified stained glass window. IE TCD MS11182/206
Academic departments
Library departments
Collaboration map
ChurchesCultural
institutions
External academics
TCD Library Departments:•Manuscripts & Archives Research Library•Preservation & Conservation
The Clarke Studios Collection Video
Collaboration with Academic Departments
•Lecture at the Loyola Institute: Stained Glass & Theology.
•Conversation with the Trinity Irish Art Research Centre: One M.Phil dissertation for the academic year 2013-2014 was written about the Clarke Studios.
•Funding received from the Trinity Long Room Hub for a symposium on the Clarke Studios archive and its digital collection.
Collaboration with Cultural Institutions:
Irish Cultural institutions with material potentially related to the Clarke Studios: •National Gallery of Ireland: Preliminary discussions with their department of Prints and Drawings; a collaboration proposal currently being examined by management at Trinity College Library Dublin.•Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art.•Crawford Gallery.•National Library of Ireland.
The future:•Photographs of the actual stained glass windows?•Crowd sourcing to help identify designs with no information about them?
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