DPLA Technologies: Foundations for Growth & Sustainability

Chris Freeland14 Jun 2011

uh, who is this guy?

M.S., Biological SciencesEastern Illinois University, 1997

B.S., Environmental BiologyEastern Illinois University, 1996

Director, Center for Biodiversity InformaticsMissouri Botanical Garden, 2007 – date

Technical DirectorBiodiversity Heritage Library, 2007 – date

http://chrisfreeland.com

@chrisfreeland

<3 libraries, <3+ books

• Public libraries– Incredibly important for rural & urban Americans– Community centers– Tech hubs– Education opportunities / Reading programs

• Academic libraries– My users

• I see DPLA as complementary

what is “it”?

Are we trying to gobble up as much data as possible, tie them together with services, throw them at the wall and see what sticks, or are we trying to build a thematic slice of content with pristine data as a demonstration of a DPLA environment?– Mass of data, or refined dataset?

this is the dpla

aggregation vs. repository?

• Will DPLA hold metadata about objects in other systems, or will DPLA hold metadata + objects in its own repository?

• Will DPLA create new content?• Does DPLA have a preservation component?• IA scans & stores– Needs improved documentation, services for easy

upload of complex objects & in bulk• Rebuilding IA / Europeana on steroids?

media types?

Will need to coordinate with content group

who will be able to contribute?

• Anyone?• Partners?– Governance

• Commercial data providers?– Bussia hostess wanted new books– Flickr– Tumblr– Wikipedia– Netflix

motivation & reward for participation?

• Organizational Data providers– Increased access & exposure

• Individual Data providers– Labours of love

• But really, what’s in it for content holders?– Why would someone want to participate in this

endeavor?• Europeana has built itself as dissemination pathway for

EU-funded projects• Want isn’t a question anymore; clear to get funding,

embrace Europeana

restricted content?

• Culturally (in)sensitive content• Erotica / pornography• Government docs

• Schema.org has a tiny, clever setting– isFamilyFriendly

easy content

• Internet Archive Books• Cultural Heritage via OAI-PMH– Federal funding already making these available

• Public domain printed literature– Use OpenLibrary, LibraryThing, Mendeley to

identify public domain content people want

mobile

• Maybe we aggregate data, let others build?– MTA

linked open data

• <3

• How much data vs metadata needed?• Ed Summers blog post• TBL diagram

dpla & gaming

http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en/splash

ui / ux?

• Sales Inventory• Media• Cultural Heritage• Gaming• Narrative / content + context

media partnerships

partnerships with cool kids

Need a community manager

wild ideas: Angry Books?

wild ideas: community book readings

• Readings of free books by interesting people• Better than an audiobook, with visual cues

• Like Star Wars fan movie for Moby Dick. Each group records themselves reading

http://blog.zdf.de/hyperland/2011/06/bibliotheken-suchen-ihre-zukunft-im-netz/