An Introductory Guide to the New NYPL Digital Collections Platform
Editors Note: Congrats and kudos to our good friend, former colleague, and currently
From the Introduction to Josh’s Post:
Just a few weeks ago we released a new iteration—the spiritual successor to Digital Gallery, which we call Digital Collections.
Digital Collections contains more than 800,000 digitized items, and that number grows every day. While that’s a small fraction of the New York Public Library’s overall holdings, the aim of Digital Collections is to provide context for the materials we have digitized and to inspire people to use and reuse the media and data on offer there to advance knowledge and create new works.
While the aim of Digital Gallery was similar, we’ve now moved beyond just static images, and the platform includes video, audio, and texts, as well as more interplay with our collections experiments (more on that below).
I couldn’t be more proud of this joint effort of a variety of teams across the library, including curators, the NYPL Information Technology Group, NYPL Labs, and many others. I’m pleased to present this post as a kind of primer to the features large and small that we’ve included in the platform.
Read the Complete Introductory Blog Post to the New NYPL Digital Collections Platform
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.