The Spectator is fully digitized and online! Issues from 1877 to 2014 are available online. Whenever possible pages have been scanned from original paper copies and digitized using state of the art technology that provides full-page, searchable reproductions of articles, photographs, and advertisements. The digitization of the materials required repairing fragile, heavily-used items, which took […]
Month: March 2015
Digital Library Collections Website Project
The Digital Library Collections Website (DLC) beta was released in late October. Until the DLC release, our digital projects were “siloed” within their own applications, limiting exploration to only one project or exhibition at a time. The DLC allows content from all of our projects and exhibitions to be explored and discovered in a single interface. The […]
Ford International Fellowship Program (IFP) Archives Project
We are in the midst of work on Ford’s International Fellowship Program (IFP) Archives. The Ford IFP offered post-graduate study to more than 4,300 people via offices in 22 countries managed by the Secretariat in New York. The IFP Archives include paper and digital materials from those 22 offices, from the Secretariat, and from the […]
Hyacinth
Hyacinth Editing Interface Screenshot Hyacinth is a metadata editor that will eventually be used to manage the metadata for digital projects. It was originally developed for the Durst Project but has expanded to accommodate the more widespread metadata needs of the libraries. The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division has tested it for customer orders, and […]