• The Public Library of Brookline’s Digitization Experience, by Anne Reed

    (Anne Reed is the Assistant Director for Administration at the Brookline Public Library) The Public Library of Brookline has worked with the Digital Commonwealth since 2007 when Anne Clark uploaded 10 historical photographs into the repository, and provided feedback on the data entry and batch uploading process. From this beginning, Anne Clark and I selected…

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  • Repository development at the BPL: January 2014 update

    Over the past few months, the development work on the new Digital Commonwealth repository at the Boston Public Library has focused on functionality for ingesting metadata records via the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This functionality enables Digital Commonwealth to include metadata created by institutions around the state in the central search…

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  • Digital Commonwealth Newsletter: January 2014

    All the latest news from the Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts! Updates for January, 2014   Save the Date!! April 8, 2014   8th Annual Digital Commonwealth Conference Hogan Center at Holy Cross in Worcester   This one-day conference features keynote addresses from two nationally known speakers: Melissa Levine and Liz Bishoff   Melissa Levine is the Lead Copyright Officer from…

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  • Lee Library Association’s Digitization Project, Part II

    This is the second part of the Lee Library blog posts that examine their recent digitization projects. Part I is available here: http://digitalcommonwealth.org/blog/?p=125 This month, we are following up with Lee Library Association Trustee Mary Philpott. Mary has had access to the forthcoming new Digital Commonwealth Repository’s Administrative pages to help test the new repository…

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  • October / November 2013 Newsletter

    All the latest news from the Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts! Updates for October/November, 2013              New Officers and Bylaws Ratified The votes are in! The new Board of Directors members are official and the Bylaw changes ratified. With that step out of the way, Digital Commonwealth can now officially apply…

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