1.
ESTABLISHING THE
MISSOURI HUB:
A SERVICE HUB FOR DPLA
Chris Freeland, Washington University in St. Louis
David Henry, Missouri History Museum
Emily Jaycox, Missouri History Museum

2.
WHAT IS DPLA?
1. A por tal that del ivers students, teachers, scholars, and the
public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in
America.
2. A platform that enables new and transformative uses of
our digitized cultural heritage.
3. An advocate for a strong publ ic option in the twenty-first
century. The DPLA seeks to multiply openly accessible
materials to strengthen the publ ic option that l ibraries
represent in their communities.

3.
CONTENT HUBS

4.
SERVICE HUBS

5.
SERVICE HUB MODEL
PONDS LAKES OCEAN
Local Regional National
Users / Visitors / Researchers

6.
LOCAL DISCUSSIONS LED TO ACTION
TECHO-STL
Technology
Exchange for
Cultural
Heritage
Organizations in
ST. Louis
Cultural heritage organizations & beyond:
Libraries Museums
Universities
Technology
Partners
Financial
Institutions
Opportunity to share experience, collaborate
Linked Data Platforms
Digital Exhibitions

7.
SEPTEMBER 2013,
TECHO-STL MEETING AT STL FED
 Who can be the Service Hub in Missouri?
 Participation from Carl Wingo, learned
Missouri Digital Heritage (contentDM) in migration
 Timing
 STL 250th
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 100th
 Demand
 What questions can’t be asked of DPLA about Missouri right now?
 Reuse
 Lessons learned from other Hubs
 What else could our group of interested libraries do together?
 Scope of content
 What is a Missouri digital object?

8.
GOAL SET IN SPRING 2014
 GOAL: By October 2014, the digital collections of
contributing institutions will be made available on
DPLA through a Missouri-centered hub
 Admin working group
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 Missouri History Museum
 Washington University in St. Louis
 Technical group
 Led by David Henry at Missouri History Museum

9.
 Missouri Hub
INTRODUCING…
http://dp. la/search?par tner%5B%5D=Missouri+Hub
 41,557 digital objects contributed to DPLA
 22,136 images
 7,886 texts
 6,834 physical objects
 Contributors across the state:
 Missouri History Museum
 St. Louis University
 Washington University in St. Louis
 Kansas City Public Library
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 The State Historical Society of Missouri

10.
BEFORE & AFTER SEARCHES
 “Mi ss o ur i”
 Before Missouri Hub addition: 27,000
 After Missouri Hub addition: 70,000
 “ 1 9 0 4 Wo r l d’ s Fa i r ”
 Before Missouri Hub addition: 232
 After Missouri Hub addition: 1,968

11.
PLATFORM / AGGREGATOR
 Missouri Digital Heritage is the state-wide platform
 Intake engine for getting new content online, especially from smaller,
tech-challenged organizations
 Well-established
 Available via OAI-PMH
 The Missouri Hub is an aggregator
 Onramp to DPLA
 Pulls content from repositories within Missouri, can include MDH
once agreements in place
 Aggregator is a silent utility without a user interface

12.
Missouri
Hub

13.
Missouri
Hub

14.
DPLA IS A REPOSITORY OF METADATA
 DPLA does not host digital assets, nor does the Hub
 Purpose of the Hub is to normal ize/regularize metadata so it
can be passed to DPLA in a uni fied stream
 DPLA only stores Metadata + Link to Thumbnai l ( if exists) +
Link back to digital asset in contributing repository
 DPLA does value-added post -processing on the metadata to
enable search facets for DATE & PLACE
 Richer discovery experience

15.
CCO
 Al l metadata shared with DPLA MUST be provided under a CC0
l icense
 This applies only to metadata - not digital assets
 What is CC0?
 Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
 “…has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his
or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law…”
 “You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for
commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”
 Why this approach?
 Metadata are statements, facts
 Restrictions limit reuse en masse

16.
HOW TO JOIN IN THE FUN
Saint Louis University students dancing
at a Halloween party, ca. 1955.
http://dp.la/item/b0884cc71d857923122b3eb1507dafc4
Contributors
• Review & sign
Memorandum of
Understanding:
http://data.mohistory.org/files/M
OHub_MOU_Sep_2014.docx
• Connect your
tech/systems people with
David Henry