Category: Repository Updates
Digital Commonwealth March 2025 Statistics
Going forward, and with thanks to the Repository team here at BPL, we’ll be sharing some statistics on new collections being shared for the first time on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Below is our first update, for March 2025. Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Traveler (1,776 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1925-1931) Joseph Connolly…
DC3 Repository System: An Overview
In order to better support the ever-growing collections of digitized content from Digital Commonwealth member institutions, developers in the Boston Public Library’s Digital Services team have been building the next generation of the library’s digital asset management system. This new system, built entirely on open-source software, uses cloud storage for file management, allowing the repository…
3 Breakout Session Reports from the 2014 Annual Conference
Developing a Born-Digital Preservation Workflow Presenters: Bill Donovan and Jack Kearney, Boston College Our presenters described the workflow followed to access records on an external hard drive included in the personal papers of Irish soprano and harpist Mary O’Hara, their first dive into the sea of digital preservation. They described how workflows start as baseline…