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Category: Training

Metadata Creation is a GAAS!
The following is a guest post by Amy Benson, who has been working the past year under the auspices of the Boston Public Library to review Digital Commonwealth member metadata issues. My recent collaboration with the BPL, to prepare metadata from a number of libraries for the Digital Commonwealth Repository, has been a pleasure and…
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March 26, 2014
Half-Day Workshop on Developing Lesson Plans
On Monday, June 24, 2013, Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts held a free half-day workshop focusing on developing lesson plans featuring digital content. The workshop was held at the Whittemore Library, Framingham State University, and was attended by school library media specialists, new teachers, and professionals from cultural organizations interested in making (and using) digital content…
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July 3, 2013
Amy Benson hired to advise members on Metadata procedures
Over the next several months, until the end of the calendar year, Digital Commonwealth will be providing metadata production and quality control assistance for collections digitized under the BPL’s LSTA-funded statewide digitization program. The goal is to assure that at least 40,000 records are prepared for ingest into the new repository system from at least…
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July 1, 2013