DPLA Technologies: Foundations for Growth & Sustainability

DPLA Technologies:Foundations for Growth & Sustainability
Chris Freeland
14 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 / Europeanaon 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/

DPLA Technologies: Foundations for Growth & Sustainability

by Chris Freeland on Jun 14, 2011

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