1. Collaborating on
Collections as a
Community
Patricia
Hswe
|
Penn
State
University
Libraries
Keystone
Digital
Humanities
Conference
23
June
2016
A Project Showcase
7. Survey
in
fall
2014
about
digital
collections
PA
Digital
Collections
Summit
in
summer
2014
/
Emily
Gore
The Story of PA Digital
8. Survey
in
fall
2014
about
digital
collections
PA
Digital
Collections
Summit
in
summer
2014
/
Emily
Gore
Building
the
aggregator
The Story of PA Digital
9. 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
12. “Social
engineering”
side
of
the
effort
How
do
you
get
a
distributed
bunch
of
people
to
collaborate,
coordinate,
get
things
DONE?
13. 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
14. 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
16. Surveying the PA digital collections
landscape
We
know
we
need
more
participants
that
are
museums
and
archives.
17. 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
18.
19. Code
for
DPLA
Hydra
Head:
https://github.com/tulibraries/dplah
http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator
21. 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!
22. 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
23. What’s next?
• Lots
of
outreach!
• Governance
work
• Addressing
feature
requests
about
/
from
– Metadata
– Aggregator
– DPLA
25. Image credits
• take
a
photo
-‐
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_aldridge/8239964617/
via
Flickr
by
Bruce
Aldridge
CC
BY-‐SA
2.0
• Free
Library
of
Philadelphia
-‐
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:The_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia.jpg
via
WikimediaCommons
by
nanoman657
CC
BY-‐SA
3.0
• Surveying
-‐
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/12270235054/
via
Flickr
by
David
Goehring
CC
BY
2.0
• Buzzword
Bingo:
Metadata
=
Data
about
data
-‐
https://www.flickr.com/photos/
planeta/11427773216/
via
Flickr
by
Ron
Mader
CC
BY-‐SA
2.0
• Construction
worker
at
Westlake
Center,
1988
-‐
https://www.flickr.com/photos/
seattlemunicipalarchives/6648032895
via
Flickr
by
Seattle
Municipal
Archives
CC
BY
2.0
• IMG_6531
-‐
https://www.flickr.com/photos/h3nr0/5012587802/
via
Flickr
by
Henry
Tseng
CC
BY
2.0