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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 for inclusion in the DPLA! We’d like to share a 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 refrain when I introduce myself as the Chief Curator of 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 made for this competition were submitted to the GIF IT 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 digital collections of over a dozen cultural heritage organizations from Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsOctober 24, 2018 ago
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 Primary sources allow users to engage in historical content from an experiential point Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 4 yearsAugust 29, 2018 ago
Miscellaneous

Summer 2018 Updates

Boating at summer camp, Oaks, PA. Courtesy of Temple University. PA Digital has achieved many milestones in 2018. On March 2, we held an orientation webinar, hosted by our newest PA Digital Team Member, Stefanie Ramsay! You can view the recording here. We have had two harvests so far this Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 5 yearsJuly 27, 2018 ago
Miscellaneous

Memorial Day in Pennsylvania

Observed in the United States on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day honors those who died in the armed forces. Many cities in the United States have claimed to be the originators of Memorial Day, including Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Boalsburg declared itself the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1864, according Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 5 yearsMay 24, 2018 ago
Conferences

MARAC Spring 2018

This post is by Brandy Karl, Copyright Officer @ the Pennsylvania State University and member of PA Digital Metadata Team Rights Subgroup and Rachel Appel, co-project manager of PA Digital. This month, we had the pleasure of presenting at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives (MARAC) Spring 2018 Conference in Hershey, PA Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 5 yearsApril 17, 2018 ago
Conferences

DPLA Members Meeting 2018 Recap

Rachel Appel, Doreva Belfiore, Gabe Galson, and I attended the first DPLA Members Network Meeting held in Atlanta, GA. Including PA Digital, 23 of 27 member hubs were represented at the meeting, which provided us the opportunity to chat with other attendees about our ideas, goals, projects, questions, challenges, and Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 5 yearsMarch 29, 2018 ago
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 Public Library of America (DPLA). The DPLA aggregates digital collections Read more…

By stefaniejramsay, 5 yearsFebruary 26, 2018 ago

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