Author: Patricia Feeley
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in November
If you were a little sad to see your feathered friends head south last month, take a gander (pun intended) at the John James Audubon The Birds of America drawings digitized by the Boston Public Library in November. You won’t want to miss the weirdly wonderful Roseate Spoonbill below: There is, once again, something for…
Digital Commonwealth: More than digitization services
The Digital Commonwealth Outreach and Education Committee is responsible for all the workshops and classes that Digital Commonwealth offers to the cultural institutions of Massachusetts. While DC has offered workshops on metadata, the digitization process and understanding copyright, the popularity of the digital exhibit workshops took us by surprise. We started with a workshop on…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in October
As we pack away the ghosts and goblins of Halloween and prepare for Thanksgiving, let us give thanks: …to the Annisquam Historical Society for sharing a lovely sketch of the I Am Here schooner amongst its 86 historical documents. …to the Boston Public Library – and especially to the Leventhal Map Center – for continuing…