Welcome to the new and improved Costume-Con Archives!
From here you can visit the accumulated data we have from all previous Costume-Cons:
[ Data Archive ] [ Visual Gallery ]
Please let us know if you encounter any issues with pulling up the data and let us know if you have corrections to names or other data stored in either space. In many cases we only had poor video/audio to transcribe and some data has been lost as a result. To assist with adding missing names, use the word “unknown” in either search box. It’s our hope to eliminate ALL of these unknown items in the near future.
Your assistance with corrections is accepted with our gratitude.
What happened?
From the summer of 2021 until the beginning of 2022, a massive revision in site navigation and data structure was undertaken, to repair the damage to our Visual Gallery as a result of a website hack, made possible because we continued to maintain the Gallery2 installation that served to display our still images. The transition to the new and improved Visual Gallery is now complete and all collateral that was on the old system can now be viewed in the new one.
In the immortal words of Ron Popeil, “But wait! There’s more!”
The first stage (a major redesign and move to WordPress) was completed in 2016. We moved the site to a responsive layout that’s suitable for a wide variety of devices and refreshed the layout for the first time in over ten years.
The second stage involved extracting all of the nested details and data, including event summaries, program descriptions, participant names, and other information about each Costume-Con that isn’t photographic in nature. The there is now information about the 37 Costume-Cons that took place. If you search of any CC using CC## (CC22, for example) using the box with the magnifying glass, you will now see all of the content we have online.
The third stage involved migrating the photos for each major event or competition to our new “Visual Gallery” (one event at a time). There are now closer to 9,800 photos in the Visual Gallery. Migration was completed on March 15, 2022.
The fourth and final stage includes cataloging and publishing digital versions of the collateral in the Costume-Con Archives for additional research options, and digitizing any video that hasn’t already been digitized, for distribution to storage sites across the country, including the ICG Archives. Shortly, a catalog of the objects in the collection will appear on the Overview page for each of these. Cataloging the extant paper archive is underway now.
Thanks very much for continuing to use the site!
— The Costume-Con Archivist —