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/

The Demonstrator Projects: Partner Institutions

Attributed to Richard King: St. Brendan the Navigator. Colour design for unidentified stained glass window. IE TCD MS11182/206

A small boat that could get lost….

Solutions

Know your value Collaborate

What can we offer?

Art History History Postcolonial Studies

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.

Clarke Studios Symposium

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?

Thank you!