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 increasingly difficult to maintain, and began the planning process to Read more…
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 to support continuity and sustainability planning, with input from our Read more…
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 caution. First up is a Presbyterian cook-book contributed by the University of Read more…
The PA Digital Metadata Rights Subgroup Team is excited to present the third of three video modules on copyright and rights statements. The third module, “Implementing RightsStatements.org” provides an overview of rights statements and how to implement them as shown through examples done at Penn State University. This is a Read more…
As a Pennsylvania native (Kittanning, PA), educated by our flagship institution (Penn State), and current resident (Erie, PA), I can’t help but be a little partial to the PA Digital Hub. So I am delighted to have the opportunity to discuss collections, description, and access at DPLA on this blog, Read more…
This is Gabe Galson. I work here at Temple University on the PA Digital Metadata team and would like to share with you some tricks of the trade. Shhhh! These are the exclusive Metadata Cleanup secrets the pros don’t want you to know about. Field value normalization life hacks that, Read more…
In late July I had the pleasure of participating in the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and serving as a co-panelist at a rights-oriented session: https://archives2017.sched.com/event/ABHL/504-the-rights-stuff-encouraging-appropriate-reuse-with-standardized-rights-statements. The session was moderated by Kelcy Shepherd (DPLA Network Manager, Digital Public Library of America). and my co-panelists were Laura Capell Read more…
For our first edition of Meet the Developer Team, we would like to introduce Chad Nelson who works at Temple University and is a part of PA Digital. The Developer Team has worked tirelessly on PA Digital’s aggregator so that our hub can harvest over 214,000 records from 38 institutions Read more…
2017 has already been an amazing year for PA Digital! We began our year with a webinar, “Highlights of DPLA Whitepapers Webinar” in January in order to give an overview of three complex documents for our existing and prospective contributors. During this webinar, we summarized Aggregating and Representing Collections in Read more…