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Providing the On-Ramp to the Digital Public Library of America
Sandra, Rebekah, Anna
The Digital Public Library of America
Digital Public Library of America
Dreaming the DPLA
Dreaming the DPLA
DPLA is…
Open
Free
Easy to Use
Distributed
The DPLA Portal
Types of items
• Photographs• Books• Maps • Drawings• Government documents• Correspondence and diaries• Oral histories• Videos• Sounds• Datasets
Charlie Chaplain Movie Poster, Smithsonian 1915-1916
The African-American Experience, UNLV
Salt Lake Temple, 1910, Utah Division of State History
Letter from a slave owner, 1850Marching Band, Beaver County School
District
National partners and funders
• Smithsonian Institution• Institute for Museum and Library Services• National Archives and Records
Administration• National Endowment for the Humanities• John S. and James L. Knight Foundation• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation• $500,000 anonymous donation• Arcadia Foundation• Sloan Foundation
Major contributing institutions
• Smithsonian Institution• National Archives & Records Admin.• Hathi Trust• Harvard University• New York Public Library• Boston Public Library• Biodiversity Heritage Library• ARTStor• Internet Archive• University of Virginia Libraries• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign• University of Southern California
Digital Hubs Pilot
Create the on-ramp for memory institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – to contribute content to the Digital Public Library of America
Content vs. Service Hub
Content Hub : 1:1 Service Hub : 1: Many
Service Hubs
1.Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts) 2.Digital Library of Georgia 3.Kentucky Digital Library 4.Minnesota Digital Library 5.South Carolina Digital Library6.Mountain West Digital Library
“Leverage the existing infrastructure of the nation”
Digital Hubs PilotGoals
• Lay foundational infrastructure for DPLA• Conceive and test models• Empower memory institutions in the region• Catalyze relationships between local residents
and their history • Inspire engagement among libraries and their
local communities
• Formed in 2001:A program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium
Mountain WestDigital Library
Mountain West Digital Library
Original Goals: Help more organizations to digitize
materials about our region’s history and cultural heritage
Maintain a public portal to digital collections in the Mountain West region – Make content accessible to everyone– Offer local control – Keep it low cost– Standardize for interoperability
As of April 2014
152 partners
Over 900,000 items
634 Collections
6 states
Scoreboard, 1959. Uintah County Library
Distributed Network
Benefits of Tiered Network
• People who are closest to the materials curate collections and assign metadata
• Provides flexible, scalable infrastructure
• Consolidates equipment and expertise
• Reinforces standards and policies• Creates a platform for collaborative
work
MWDL Services
• Harvesting Metadata/ Aggregation
• Provide a central search portal
• Sharing with DPLA• Training• Standards
development• Platform for
collaboration
Using the DPLA
• Resources of a nation
Five ways to search
• Basic search• By map• By timeline• By exhibition• By app
New York Public Library, “A Book Wagon at Destination {Bronx], ca. 1930s
Search by Map
Search by timeline
Search by exhibition
The Gold Rush Exhibit
Search by app
DPLA Bookshelf
Serendipomatic
DPLA Search Widget
Want to learn more?
• Providing the On-Ramp to the Digital Public Library of America – Friday, 8:30-9:30
• Dusting Off the History in Your Attic – Friday, 9:30-10:30
• Linked Data: It’s Easier Than You Think – 11:00-12:00
• Hub and Spoke: Leveraging the Mountain West Digital Library Network – 1:30-2:30
• Visit the UALC/MWDL at Booth #108!
