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Author: dcwpadmin

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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January 30, 2014
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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January 30, 2014
The Accidental Metadatalyst, by Cara Marcus
This is a guest post presented by Cara Marcus, Director of Library Services, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital The Accidental Metadatalyst When the Boston Public Library announced their grant to digitize local collections and preserve them in the Digital Commonwealth, it seemed like a great opportunity for my small library to create our digital archives.…
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January 15, 2014