Category: Repository Updates

  • Digital Commonwealth April 2025 Statistics

    Happy Monday, everyone, and here is our April 2025 collections update! Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (2,450 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1858-1877)  The Boston Traveler (2,341 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1946) Massachusetts Archives: Accounts of Guardians of the Dudley Indians, 1801-1857 (bulk 1801-1846)(46 items; financial accounts from…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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