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What We Do

We collaborate with our library colleagues to plan, design, and build sustainable digital collections. Our work makes Harvard Library’s digital content findable and usable.

Meet Our Team
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Consultation

We provide guidance to Harvard Library colleagues on topics including:

  • Building digital collections and exhibitions in CURIOSity
  • Contributing Harvard Library collections to external projects through mass digitization, metadata sharing, or collections sharing
  • Assessing the risk of publishing digital collections due to copyright or privacy
  • Implementing standardized rights statements
  • Creating or revising descriptive metadata that will appear in multiple discovery environments
  • Sustaining digital collections throughout their lifecycle

Featured Services

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Building Digital Collections

Looking to build a digital collection website? We offer comprehensive support from idea to launch and beyond.

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Rights & Risk Review

Evaluating copyright status is a collaborative effort. We help you to anticipate the impact of copyright throughout your project’s lifecycle.

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Sustainability

We help you to plan for the sustainability of digital collections projects throughout their lifecycle. When appropriate, we coordinate migration.

Events

When we have upcoming events we’ll share them here. To learn more about our work, view all our events.

Oct
23

SPARC Open Meeting: Standardized Rights Statements

On October 23, 2024 at 9:30 am

Chelcie Juliet Rowell will present a lightning talk on implementing standardized rights statements (SRS) at Harvard Library. They will situate current work within earlier Harvard Library efforts, describe benefits of SRS to users and staff, and share what’s next….

News

  • Exterior of Langell Hall with banners celebrating 200 years of Harvard Law School, 1817–2017.
    Get curious about CURIOSity: Harvard Law School Library Exhibits Find a New Home 
    by Vanessa Venti
    Learn how Harvard Law School retired their Exhibit Addenda website and migrated select past exhibits to CURIOSity….
  • People promenade on foot and in horse-drawn carriages.
    Announcing the Digital Collections Discussion Group
    by Anna Van Someren
    Under the guidance of the UX & Discovery department, the Digital Collections Discussion Group creates a space for connection among Harvard staff working on digital collections….
  • Home page of CURIOSity Digital Collections
    CURIOSity 3.0 Released!
    by Vanessa Venti
    Harvard Library’s User Experience and Discovery team, in partnership with Library Technology Services is excited to announce the release of CURIOSity 3.0, the Library’s primary platform for showcasing digital collections….