CollectionBuilder Bulletin: April 2024

tl;dr Check out our monthly round-up for April 2024 featuring CollectionBuilder news and updates, upcoming events, and more.

News:

Farewell to Julia!: CB Community Liaison Julia Stone’s last day with CB is today, Friday, April 26. She reflects upon her time with the CB team and shares the next step in her career journey in this blog post.

CB Project Spotlight: In our latest blog post, Moritz Mähr, Associate Researcher in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern and Digital Project Manager of Stadt.Geschichte.Basel at the University of Basel, shares how he has used CollectionBuilder and contributed to the development of the cb-translate template.

CB Documentation updates:

New CB-CSV Videos: The CB-CSV Walkthrough now has video options! Check out the YouTube playlist to begin learning how to create a digital collection/exhibit website using our most robust template, CollectionBuilder-CSV.

Learn how to update your metadata: Check out our new CB walkthrough all about Updating Metadata. This two-part walkthrough provides steps for updating your site’s metadata using the GitHub web interface and Visual Studio Code.

Upcoming events:

Code4Lib Conference
May 13-16, 2024

The CB team is teaching a post-conference workshop at the Code4Lib Conference on May 16. If you are attending the conference this year, we hope to see you there!

There will be no CollectionBuilder Monthly Meetup for May 2024, but please keep an eye out for future meetups!

Connect with us:

Below are some ways to stay connected with the CollectionBuilder community:

• Join our community spaces (including a Slack and Google Group)
• Post technical questions on our GitHub Discussion Board

If you have a project and/or event you’d like us to highlight next month, please email collectionbuilder.team@gmail.com.

-The CollectionBuilder Team