As you may already know if you follow us (@PADigitalNews) or the Digital Public Library of America (@dpla) on Twitter, the DPLA collaborated with Europeana, DigitalNZ, and Trove last month to hold their annual GIF IT UP competition. GIF IT Read more…
PA Digital is, at its core, a partnership, and we are fortunate to collaborate with many amazing individuals and institutions all over Pennsylvania. We would like to spotlight these partners in a new serial feature, Meet Our Contributors; in it, Read more…
This guest blog post was written by Martina Soden, Collection/Metadata Manager of the Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives Scranton Public Library takes a large role in our community in Northeastern Pennsylvania. We have a strong competent, skilled staff who Read more…
In July, PA Digital’s Metadata Team began regular Virtual Office Hours. Inspired by instructors in our previous educational environments, we offer Virtual Office Hours as time and space for open conversation and information-sharing on digital collections and participation in PA Read more…
We recognize that one of the greatest obstacles of bringing cultural heritage collections into digital spaces like PA Digital and the DPLA is the large step of initial digitization, including forming a plan and a workflow for digitization, and executing Read more…
On May 10 & 17, 2017 Emily Gore (DPLA) and Greg Cram (NYPL) presented a two-part webinar on RightsStatements.org, a joint initiative of DPLA and Europeana that provides standardized rights statements for cultural heritage institutions and aggregators to apply to digital Read more…
A little over a year and a half ago, the PA Digital Founders Group first met in Philadelphia to discuss the potential for a Pennsylvania hub for the Digital Public Library of America. As of April 13, 2016, Pennsylvania content has Read more…
Libraries, historical societies, museums, and related cultural heritage institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania contain cultural heritage historical collections of great depth and richness. The mission of PA Digital is to make the digital collections of the Commonwealth’s cultural heritage institutions Read more…
We received word that our Service Hub application was accepted. Stay tuned for more information and read about all four new Service Hubs, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin: http://dp.la/info/2015/08/28/dpla-welcomes-four-new-service-hubs-to-our-growing-network/
Pennsylvania DPLA aggregator prototype: 136,419 records from 157 collections and 29 PA institutions As part of the efforts to start building a Pennsylvania DPLA hub, we have recently completed a PA DPLA aggregator prototype: http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator/ It currently contains 136,419 records Read more…