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Call for Board Members
Want to get more involved with Digital Commonwealth? We’re looking for members to sit on the board, starting terms in July. If you’re interested in taking on this role, please send current Digital Commonwealth President Karen Cariani (karen_cariani@wgbh.org) a resume or short bio and a statement of interest. Statements of interest should include: A statement…
A Newcomer’s View on Digital Commonwealth Board Meetings
I am not a board member of the Digital Commonwealth. In fact, until the 2014 Annual Conference, I had never attended a Digital Commonwealth event. However, when I showed up, along with three other guests, at the May 2014 board meeting, I was welcomed quite warmly. The term board meeting makes it seem like it…
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…