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Virtual Collections
What is the Virtual Collections Service?
Who can use the Virtual Collections service?
What materials are eligible?
Harvard Collections using VC
What is the Virtual Collections Service?
Virtual Collections (VC) is a HUL OIS service that can harvest descriptions and links from HUL union
catalogs (e.g., HOLLIS, VIA, HGL) and provide a web-based search and display interface of these
materials for the user.
Using VC, a curator can create a web-based catalog that provides a unified, collection view of
thematically related resources that exist in a number of systems or within a single system.
A virtual collection catalog provides basic online catalog features (searching and browsing of the
unified collection; short and full record displays; links to digital content; search history).
To learn more, consult the list of virtual collections and explore one for yourself!
The curator can also create a controlled list of VC “categories” and associate these with collection
records. Categories are optional topical terms created within the VC environment that are distinct
from any subjects contained in the harvested records.
Associated with each virtual collection is an administrative interface that a curator can use to
maintain the collection (update categories, delete records). See VC Maintenance System for more information. VC also offers an OAI data provider that exposes our virtual collections for harvesting by other institutions.
Who can use the Virtual Collections service?
Harvard libraries, museums and archives are eligible to use the Virtual Collections service.
Other Harvard organizational units are eligible, when sponsored by a Harvard library.
Consult VC Use Policies for more information about eligibility.
If you are interested in participating, see How to Join.
What materials are eligible?
Materials cataloged in a HUL union catalog (HOLLIS, VIA, Harvard Geospatial Library) are eligible to be included in a virtual collection. Collections described in a virtual collection can belong to any academic
discipline, subject domain, etc. There are no limits on the vocabulary used.
Consult VC Use Policies for more information about eligibility of materials.
Harvard Collections using VC
These virtual collections are currently available. All are publicly accessible. Type "stand-alone" indicates a collection that is hosted entirely on the VC server. Type "integrated" refers to a collection that is integrated with other content on a server local to the collection owner.
Chinese Rubbings Collection
| URL: |
http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=rubbings |
| Type: |
Stand-alone |
| Description: |
Chinese Rubbings Collection - More than 2000 digital images of Chinese rubbings that capture Buddhist and Daoist scriptural texts dating from the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE) that were carved on stone slabs, cave walls, bronze vessels, jade, ceramics, roof tiles, and other materials. The rubbings themselves date from the Ming Dynasty to about 1940 and are highly accurate, often unique sources for scholars of Chinese history, epigraphy, and related disciplines.
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rubbings |
Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides
| URL: |
http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu |
| Type: |
Integrated |
| Description: |
Descriptions and links to digitized versions of more than 500 crime broadsides from the collections of the Harvard Law School Library. (Broadsides are one page notices sold to audiences that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain). The examples digitized span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason. |
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crimes |
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
| URL: |
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:latampdc |
| Type: |
Stand-alone |
| Description: |
More than 5,000 titles including many scarce and unique Latin American
pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile,
Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this
collection. |
| OAI setSpec: |
lap |
Open Collections Program -
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
| URL: |
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion |
| Type: |
Integrated |
| Description: |
Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - Selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, special collections, and archives including more than 500,000 pages of digitized books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts that contribute to the understanding of the global, social-history, and public-policy implications of disease and offer important historical perspectives on the science and the public policy of epidemiology today.
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contagion |
Open Collections Program -
Immigration to the United States, 1789 -1930
| URL: |
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration |
| Type: |
Integrated |
| Description: |
Selected historical materials from Harvard's library, archives, and museums
documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution
to the onset of the Great Depression. The collection includes approximately
1,800 books and pamphlets, 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from
manuscript and archival collections. By incorporating diaries, biographies,
and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material
provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants. |
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immigration |
Open Collection Program -
Women Working, 1800-1930
| URL: |
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww |
| Type: |
Integrated |
| Description |
More than 500,000 pages of historical documentation focusing on the role of
women in the United States economy. The sources include books, pamphlets,
manuscripts and images selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. |
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ww |
Studies in Scarlet:
Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K.
| URL: |
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:sscarlet |
| Type: |
Stand-alone |
| Description: |
Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives of American, British, and Irish cases 1815-1914 involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children, as well as trials for murder and rape. These trials are especially rich sources for the study of the history of women in early modern society. |
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scarlet |
The Poet's Voice-
A Digital Poetry Collection
| URL: |
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:poetsvoi |
| Type: |
Stand-alone |
| Description: |
The Poet's Voice provides online access to selected digital audio recordings of poetry readings from the Harvard College Library's Woodberry Poetry Room. |
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poetsvoice |
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