dpla + wi: building a dpla service hub in wisconsin (waal conference)
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DPLA + WI
BUILDING A DPLA SERVICE HUB IN WISCONSIN
Emily Pfotenhauer
Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS
Wisconsin Association of Academic LibrariansApril 22, 2015
SERVICE HUB
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Representing their community (state, region, etc.) as the point of contact for DPLA and obtaining community buy-in on significant issues affecting their partners.
2. Aggregating their partners’ metadata into a single standard and sharing it with DPLA through one harvestable data source.
3. Actively addressing metadata concerns (including copyright and licensing labeling) and working with partners on timely remediation.
4. Providing outreach to their partners, developing local practitioners’ capacity on topics such as open data, data quality and standards, copyright and licensing, and other relevant subjects.
5. Maintaining technologies that allow for standardized metadata to be shared with the DPLA on a regular, consistent basis.
6. Engaging with the broader community of data creators, providers, and users, locally and nationally.
SERVICE HUB
BENEFITS AND IMPACT
1. Broaden the impact and reach of Wisconsin’s
libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
2. Enable more Wisconsin libraries and cultural
heritage institutions to share and preserve their
digital collections.
3. Inspire innovative uses of Wisconsin’s digital
content.
4. Ensure that Wisconsin is well-represented on the
national map of digital content.
SERVICE HUB
FOUNDATIONS
• Wisconsin’s long history of digitizing and sharing
cultural heritage resources.
• Ten years of statewide collaboration through
Wisconsin Heritage Online/Recollection Wisconsin.
• Two years of conversations among stakeholders.
PHASE I
APRIL 2015-FEBRUARY 2016
Phase I Goals:
• Establish metadata aggregation infrastructure
• Establish workflows for metadata ingest,
remediation and sharing
• Establish initial partnerships and governance
structure
• Establish communication and outreach plans
PHASE II
FEBRUARY 2016-DECEMBER 2017
Phase II Goals:
Based on community needs and available resources.
Priorities:
• Evaluate and formalize Phase I governance structure
• Identify and add new Content Partners
• Investigate collaborative strategies for digital preservation
• Develop training or other opportunities to help more institutions
digitize content and share metadata
PHASE I
CONTENT
Approximately 400,000 metadata records representing content from more than 140 libraries, archives, historical societies and museums across the state.
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
• 182,000 records
• UW-Milwaukee
• 110,000 records
• Wisconsin Historical Society
• 15,000 records
• All Recollection Wisconsin content not included in above
• 94,000 records
Content Partnersrecollectionwisconsin.org/map
219,000
181,000
Partner
Metadat
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OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH
Metadata
Aggregator
PHASE I METADATA AGGREGATION
PHASE I
METADATA AGGREGATION
Responsibility of Content Partners:
• Grant permission to share metadata with DPLA
through a Creative Commons Zero
declaration/public domain dedication
PHASE I
GOVERNANCE
• Governing Board
• One representative from each Governing Partner
• Policy and budget
• Steering Committee
• Librarians, archivists, curators and other practitioners
across the state
• Outreach, education, future directions
• Metadata Work Group
• Metadata librarians and other experts
• Recommendations for metadata compliance, updated
guidelines
PHASE I/PHASE II
FUNDING
• Nicholas Family Foundation grant
• 2015-2017
• LSTA grant (in development)
• 2016
• Harvesting and hosting fees from Content Partners
• In-kind contributions from Governing Partners
PHASE I
TIMELINE
April-June 2015Governing Board, Steering Committee and Metadata Work Group established.
June 2015Service Hub application submitted to DPLA.
June-August 2015CC0/public domain metadata dedication confirmed with Content Partners.
August-September 2015Data Exchange Agreement and Ingest Information Form completed.Development of metadata aggregator begins.
September-November 2015Iterative ingest and metadata review with DPLA staff.
January-February 2016Data is publicly available through DPLA.
Q&A SESSIONS
WAAL Conference, Manitowoc
April 22
WAPL Conference, Wisconsin Rapids
May 8
Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, Duluth
June 5 (with Minnesota Digital Library)
WiLS Peer Council, Madison
June 8
MORE INFORMATION
Updates
recollectionwisconsin.org/dpla
recollectionwisconsin.org/newsletters
Contact
Emily Pfotenhauer
608-616-9756