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…
Alison Kemp: Digital Commonwealth’s Membership Manager
Digital Commonwealth has recently hired Alison Kemp as a temporary employee to help manage member accounts and perform other administrative tasks as time permits. She is beginning at ten hours per week. Alison currently works part-time as the administrative assistant at the Newton Free Library. She has held previous positions as a resource and communications…
NEA Spring Meeting: Panel on the State of Statewide Repositories
Archives, libraries, and special collections all over New England have digitized vast numbers of items from their collections and made them available on the Web. Metadata aggregation is one option for promoting discoverability to a wide audience and some states have (or are working towards having) the technological infrastructure and overseeing agency to host metadata…
Public Librarian Partnership Program: First Meeting
A group of 14 public librarians gathered at the Boston Public Library on April 16, 2014 for the Public Librarian Partnership Program (PLPP). This is the first of three workshops offered by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to work directly with public librarians across the state to produce an exhibit of national interest from…