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PA Digital News: Aggregator Updates

PA Digital Team members have recently been hard at work implementing a new aggregator to better gather and review contributor collections for exposure through the DPLA. We’re moving away from our homegrown aggregator and are adopting Combine, an application developed...

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Education

Introducing PA Digital Primary Source Sets

PA Digital is excited to announce the release of four brand new primary source sets! The sets, comprised of content from our wonderful PA Digital contributors, are meant to encourage use of primary sources in the classroom. Primary sources allow...

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Resources

The Importance of Fair Use and Standardized Rights Statements for Digital Cultural Heritage

By Gabe Galson and Rachel Appel Originally posted for Fair Use Week and Scholarly Communication @ Temple. At Temple University Libraries several staff members work on the PA Digital project. PA Digital is the Pennsylvania service hub of the Digital...

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Technology

A New Approach to PA Digital Aggregation

One of the core services that PA Digital offers is metadata aggregation. After evaluating our operational needs in 2018-19,  PA Digital’s technical team at Temple University Libraries decided that it was time to replace our original aggregator, which had become Read more…

By michaeljcarroll, 2 yearsAugust 18, 2021 ago
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2021 PA Digital Futures Report

The PA Digital Futures Task Force, convened in Fall 2020, recently completed its charge by developing the report below that outlines a proposed vision for the future of PA Digital. The goal of the PA Digital Futures Task Force was Read more…

By michaeljcarroll, 2 yearsAugust 3, 2021 ago
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PA Digital Cookbook Recipes

PA Digital contributors have shared a number of recipe books with the DPLA so to kick off the summer season, we are highlighting some of the treats to make over the next few months. Warning: sweet tooths should proceed with Read more…

By michaeljcarroll, 4 yearsMay 24, 2019 ago
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DPLAFest 2019 Recap

This is a guest post from Ana Enriquez, Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian at Penn State University. Last month, along with several PA Digital colleagues, I attended DPLAfest 2019. Given DPLA’s reorganization of last fall, I had some hesitation about going, Read more…

By dplainpa, 4 yearsMay 7, 2019 ago
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2019 Harvest Updates

After successful harvests in January and March, we now have 390,194 items and 846 collections from 83 partners in Pennsylvania now represented in the DPLA. Thank you to all of our contributors for your hard work in preparing these collections Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsMarch 29, 2019 ago
Guest Posts

More Than Just Chemicals: Digital Collections at the Science History Institute

This is a guest blog post from Hillary Kativa, Chief Curator of Audiovisual & Digital Collections at the Othmer Library of Chemical History at the Science History Institute.  “So, what do you have, pictures of chemical formulas or something?” Such is the common Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsDecember 19, 2018 ago
Miscellaneous

#GIFITUP 2018 Recap

This year marked the fifth edition of the GIF IT UP competition where Europeana, in cooperation with Digital Public Library of America, Digital NZ and Trove, asked users to create GIFs out of digital records aggregated in these databases. GIFs Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsNovember 27, 2018 ago
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Welcome Historic Pittsburgh

This is a guest post from Kristin Britanik, Digital Collections Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh. This past June, for the first time, the Historic Pittsburgh collaborative contributed data to PA Digital. Through this addition, more than 32,000 objects from the Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsOctober 24, 2018 ago

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