Presented at the 2014 Utah Library Association Conference.

1. Providing the On-Ramp to the Digital
Public Library of America
Sandra, Rebekah, Anna

2. The Digital Public
Library of America

3. Digital Public Library
of America

4. Dreaming the DPLA

5. Dreaming the DPLA

6. DPLA is…
Open
Free
Easy to Use
Distributed

7. The DPLA Portal

8. Types of items
• Photographs
• Books
• Maps
• Drawings
• Government documents
• Correspondence and diaries
• Oral histories
• Videos
• Sounds
• Datasets
Charlie Chaplain Movie Poster, Smithsonian 1915-1916

9. The African-American Experience, UNLV
Salt Lake Temple, 1910, Utah Division of State History
Letter from a slave owner, 1850
Marching Band, Beaver County School District

10. 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

11. 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

12. Digital Hubs Pilot
Create the on-ramp for memory
institutions – libraries, archives, and
museums – to contribute content to the
Digital Public Library of America

13. Content vs. Service Hub
Content Hub : 1:1
Service Hub : 1: Many

14. Service Hubs
1.Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts)
2.Digital Library of Georgia
3.Kentucky Digital Library
4.Minnesota Digital Library
5.South Carolina Digital Library
6.Mountain West Digital Library
“Leverage the existing
infrastructure of
the nation”

15. Digital Hubs Pilot
Goals
• 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

16. • Formed in 2001:
A program of the Utah
Academic
Library Consortium
Mountain West
Digital Library

17. 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

18. http://mwdl.org

19. As of April 2014
152 partners
Over 900,000
items
634 Collections
6 states
Scoreboard, 1959. Uintah County Library

20. Distributed Network

21. 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

22. MWDL Services
• Harvesting Metadata/
Aggregation
• Provide a central search
portal
• Sharing with DPLA
• Training
• Standards development
• Platform for
collaboration

23. Using the DPLA
• Resources of a nation

24. 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

25. DPLA Homepage
• Available at dp.la

26. Search by Map

27. Search by timeline

28. Search by exhibition

29. The Gold Rush Exhibit

30. Search by app

31. DPLA Bookshelf

32. Serendipomatic

33. DPLA Search Widget

34. 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!