Author: dcwpadmin
New BPL Digital Commonwealth Repository: a technical overview
As a previous blog post has noted, Digital Commonwealth and the Boston Public Library have embarked on a partnership that will soon result in a new state-of-the-art digital repository that will provide a range of vastly improved hosting and presentation services to Digital Commonwealth members. Based on the Fedora Commons/Hydra open-source repository system, development of…
Launching of the DPLA at the BPL April 18 and 19
On April 18 and 19, 2013, the Boston Public Library will host an event at which the Digital Public Library of America will be formally launched. The underlying system of the DPLA will both aggregate and re-expose metadata drawn from a variety of regional digital library systems. These regional systems will include the initial network…