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Historical Newspapers Dataset Released
Boston Public Library and the Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library have released a data set derived from public domain newspaper collections available on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Newspapers represent one of the richest available primary sources for historical research — capturing not just major news, but births and deaths, iconic sports victories (or crushing defeats),…
RESOLVED: Content display problems on DigitalCommonwealth.org
UPDATE: All content display issues have been resolved as of Saturday October 18. We are currently dealing with an ongoing problem displaying digitized content (images, audio, video, documents, etc.) on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Our cloud storage provider, Microsoft, has temporarily disabled access to the storage account used by Boston Public Library’s Digital & Online Services department to…