DPLA + WI: Building a DPLA Service Hub in Wisconsin (WAPL Conference)

DPLA + WIBUILDING A DPLA SERVICE HUB IN WISCONSIN

Emily PfotenhauerRecollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS

Wisconsin Association of Public LibrariesMay 8, 2015

SERVICE HUB RESPONSIBILITIES1. 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 HUBBENEFITS 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 HUBFOUNDATIONS

• 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 IAPRIL 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 ICONTENT

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

219,000181,000

Partner Metadata

OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH

Metadata Aggregator

PHASE I METADATA AGGREGATION

PHASE IMETADATA AGGREGATION

Responsibility of Content Partners:

• Grant permission to share metadata with DPLA through a Creative Commons Zero declaration/public domain dedication

PHASE IGOVERNANCE• 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 ITIMELINEApril-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

emily@wils.org

608-616-9756