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The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr.
How Grant-funded Digitization Services from the Boston Public Library
were a Timely Boon for the Massachusetts Historical Society
Nancy Heywood Digital Projects Coordinator Massachusetts Historical Society
Functional requirements
• Add screenshot of
Scope of the collection
Starting scope Ending scope
3 volumes 4 volumes
2,234 newspaper pages (534 newspaper issues)
3,314 newspaper pages (805 newspaper issues)
61 index pages 133 index pages
13 manuscript pages (front matter, Vol. 1 appendix)
65 manuscript pages (front matter, Vol. 1 appendix, Vol. 2 appendix)
No pamphlet pages 204 pamphlets (vol. 4) + 451 pamphlets (separated from vol. 2 and vol. 3)
BPL digitization
Metadata creation
The future: soon and less-soon
• OAI feed of metadata (item level = records for newspapers and pamphlets)
• Possible crowdsourcing activity layered onto website
