Lightning talk delivered at the 2015 Oregon Library Association Virtual Reference Summit in Eugene, Oregon at the request of the Answerland service.

1. Apps for Virtual Reference
Tatiana Bryant
DPLA Community
Rep

2. In Essence
The DPLA makes over 10 million items —
photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds,
moving images, and more—from libraries,
archives, and museums around the U.S.
Users can browse and search DPLA
collections by timeline, map, visual bookshelf,
format, and topic; save items to customized
lists; and share their lists with others
Users can also explore digital exhibitions
curated by DPLA content partners and staff
Visit my poster this week to
Discover
● How the DPLA works
● How content is collected
via participating partners
● How it’s funded
● How to save lists
● How to manipulate
metadata

3. For Quick
Reference

4. dp.la by Subject
Access
DPLA
content
organized
by A-Z
Subjects
or by
Number
of
Results

5. FindDPLA
Want to see DPLA
related text and
images for any
Wikipedia article?
FindDPLA is an
easy-to-install
script that allows
you to see relevant
content from the
DPLA any time you
view a Wikipedia
article

6. WikipeDPLA
Extension
queries the
DPLA each
time you visit
a Wikipedia
article, using
the article's
title, redirects,
and
categories to
find relevant
items listed as
a series of
links at the top

7. For Image
Seekers

8. Search DPLA and Europeana
Do side-by-side
searches of
Europeana and
the DPLA,
providing quick
and easy
access to both
libraries’ vast
resources

9. Culture Collage
Search the DPLA,
Europeana, and Trove
(Australia) image
archives and view the
results as a streaming
river of images
Searches can be
linked by using
keywords in the URL,
allowing themed
image streams to be
shared

10. DPLA Visual Search Prototype
Explores
DPLA
content to
provide an
at-a-glance
visual
overview of
search
results, &
an intuitive
means of
narrowing
scope

11. For Librarians

12. Historical Cats
A Twitter
bot that
grabs an
item at
random via
the DPLA's
API
platform
and tweets
it out

13. In Action
Answerland
Virtual Reference
Service
Promoting DPLA
resources FTW!

14. Thanks!
For more info visit dp.la @dpla /
All images & content were sourced
from the DPLA. Contact me for
details.