7th Annual Digital Library Conference
7th Annual Digital Library Conference May 1, 2013, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, at the Devens Commons Center, 31 Andrews Parkway, Devens, Massachusetts. Registration Fees: Digital Commonwealth Members: $95 Students: $95 Non-Members: $110 Advanced Registration Deadline: April 20, 2013 Keynote Speakers: Amy Rudersdorf, Assistant Director for Content, Digital Public Library of America Butch Lazorchak,…
Digital Commonwealth releases new Omeka system
Digital Commonwealth is pleased to announce the release of an Omeka replacement for the digital harvesting Portal. Now when you navigate to http://digitalcommonwealth.org, instead of accessing the old Portal you access a new site built on the open-source Omeka repository platform. We pursued this replacement to allow us to continue providing customer services while the…
New BPL Digital Commonwealth Repository: a technical overview
As a previous blog post has noted, Digital Commonwealth and the Boston Public Library have embarked on a partnership that will soon result in a new state-of-the-art digital repository that will provide a range of vastly improved hosting and presentation services to Digital Commonwealth members. Based on the Fedora Commons/Hydra open-source repository system, development of…
Launching of the DPLA at the BPL April 18 and 19
On April 18 and 19, 2013, the Boston Public Library will host an event at which the Digital Public Library of America will be formally launched. The underlying system of the DPLA will both aggregate and re-expose metadata drawn from a variety of regional digital library systems. These regional systems will include the initial network…