SpotlightServiceCommunityCall demo1 11Sept2020
Channel: Stanford University Libraries Digital Library Systems & Services
Date: 2020-09-13

Demo by Claire DeMarco, Associate Director of Digital Strategies and Innovation at Harvard Library, of Harvard Digital Collections (HDC) 2.0 (https://library.harvard.edu/digital-collections). HDC is Harvard Library’s Blacklight search and discovery interface for more than 6 million publicly available items from their digital repository. The major features included in this latest release are associated with creating a Harvard Digital Collections account (https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/users/sign_up). Any user is free to sign up – no Harvard affiliation required. Signing up for an account allows users to create and manage lists of items as well as save dynamic searches. 

Harvard Digital Collections is a user interface that pulls directly from LibraryCloud (https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/LibraryStaffDoc/LibraryCloud+APIs), Harvard's metadata hub. Built on the same infrastructure as CURIOSity Digital Collections (https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/), Harvard's Spotlight instance, a future goal is to use HDC's list building functionality to create Spotlight exhibits.