PA Digital and the DPLA

Collaborating on Collections as a

Community

Patricia  Hswe  |  Penn  State  University  Libraries  Keystone  Digital  Humanities  Conference  

23  June  2016

A Project Showcase

LOTS of credit due to the people involved!

LOTS of credit due to the people involved!

. . . If you want to go far, go together.https://padigital.org/about-partnership/

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The Story of PA Digital

PA  Digital  Collections  Summit  in  summer  2014  /  Emily  Gore

The Story of PA Digital

Survey  in  fall  2014  about  digital  collections

PA  Digital  Collections  Summit  in  summer  2014  /  Emily  Gore

The Story of PA Digital

Survey  in  fall  2014  about  digital  collections

PA  Digital  Collections  Summit  in  summer  2014  /  Emily  Gore

Building  the    aggregator

The Story of PA Digital

Survey  in  fall  2014  about  digital  collections

PA  Digital  Collections  Summit  in  summer  2014  /  Emily  Gore

Building  the    aggregator

Speaks  for  itself

The Story of PA Digital

“Social  engineering”  side  of  the  effort

“Social  engineering”  side  of  the  effort

How  do  you    get  a  distributed  bunch  of  people  to  collaborate,  coordinate,  get  things  DONE?

PA Digital Collections Summit – Summer 2014

• Among  participants  were  .  .  .      – Temple  U.,  PA  State  Library,  Penn,  Penn  State,  Keystone  Library  Network,  Carnegie  Library,  POWER  Library,  PALCI,  Heinz  History  Center,  and  more!  

• Emily  Gore,  DPLA  Director  of  Content  • Break-­‐out  sessions  • Next  steps

Surveying the PA digital collections landscape

• Survey  released  in  August  2014  &  open  until  June  2015  – Example  questions:  How  do  you  handle  copyright  clearance?  Who  hosts  your  digital  collections?  What  DAMS  do  you  use?  Metadata  schema?  

• 239  organizations  responded,  70%  public  and  academic  libraries  

• Access  the  survey  results  at  https://is.gd/pdcp_survey  

Surveying the PA digital collections landscape

Surveying the PA digital collections landscape

We  know  we  need  more  participants    that  are  museums  and  archives.

Building the aggregator• Proof-­‐of-­‐concept  purpose  /  show  &  tell  – Prototype  aggregator  by  March/April  2015  

• Production  aggregator  in  2016  – OAI-­‐PMH  harvesting  and  serving  – Metadata  is  transformed,  based  on  OAI  and  DPLA  requirements  

– Preview  layer  is  web-­‐based  – Intentionally  “verbose  logging”  

• To  learn  more,  view  this  DPLAFest  2016  video  presentation  about  PA  Digital:  https://is.gd/padigital_dplafest  

Code  for  DPLA  Hydra  Head:  https://github.com/tulibraries/dplah  

http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator  

THE “SOCIAL ENGINEERING” ASPECTS

Yes, the tool is important, but more so the people!

Milestones

• April  2015  –  proof-­‐of-­‐concept  aggregator  • July  2015  –  submitted  application  to  become  a  service  hub  

• Late  August  2015  –  application  approved!  • January/February  2016  –  initial  ingest  of  PA  Digital  content  

• April  2016  –  PA  Digital  content  live  in  the  DPLA!

Impact of the aggregator

• Proof-­‐of-­‐concept  state  =  unifying,  consolidating  application  not  only  in  terms  of  technology  – Tangibility  

• Advantages  re:  metadata  remediation/normalization,  distributed  workflows  

• Outreach  tool  • Local  (institutional  context)  usage/potential

What’s next?

• Lots  of  outreach!  • Governance  work  • Addressing  feature  requests  about  /  from  –Metadata  – Aggregator  – DPLA

THANK  YOU!Twitter:  @PADigitalNews  |  http://www.padigital.org/  

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