Siobhan Davies Archive
Initial UX design, database migration, back-end and front-end development for Siobhan Davies Archive, a unique dance archive of thousands of fully searchable digital records comprising materials and documentation associated with Siobahn Davies' choreographies.
Technologies:
- 🞅 MariaDB
- 🞅 Directus
- 🞅 Docker
- 🞅 Nuxt.js
Siobahan Davies Archive was the first online dance archive, launched in 2009. The brief was to preserve the archive as the original, proprietary system had become unsustainable.
After initial work migrating the underlying database and backup all archive assets via scripted automation I chose Directus as a self-hosted database manager which could expose APIs to be queried by a headless front end. I worked alongside the client and designer to create a new UI, starting with initial UX design and page layout wireframes. Front end development was carried out using Nuxt.js with particular attention paid to a sophisticated search function, allowing researchers to intuitively find archive items.
The database, Directus and Nuxt were developed within a docker container for stability across the team and ease of final deployment to a linux server.
Arrivals + Departures
Back-end, front-end and API development for Arrivals + Departures, an online interface and interactive public installation about birth, death and the journey in between by Yara + Davina.
Technologies:
- 🞅 HTML
- 🞅 CSS
- 🞅 Javascript
- 🞅 PHP
- 🞅 Headless CMS
- 🞅 Moderation Pipeline
- 🞅 API integration
- 🞅 Websocket
Arrivals + Departures consists of two custom built, networked signage boards and a corresponding website that allows names to be submitted by the public.
Development work began with a custom javascript API which allowed for entries to an SQL database. The API carried out two pass moderation on the submitted names using third party APIs and provided endpoints to the website CMS, front end and the signage boards themselves via websockets.
Submissions were displayed live across both the physical boards and the website in unison and the installation toured across the UK, New York and Switzerland with over 5000 entries submitted.
