Chelcie Juliet Rowell will share Wake Forest University's perspective as a contributing institution to the DPLA via the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center Service Hub. Like many institutions, we are grappling with how to represent archival materials at the item-level as the DPLA data model requires. In addition, we are using participation in the DPLA as an opportunity to clean up our metadata. Borrowing the principle of iterative and incremental development from the agile software development community, we treat each monthly harvest as a four-week development cycle during which we identify and implement small but meaningful improvements to our metadata. A presentation at the Society of North Carolina Archivists 2014 Annual Conference.

1. Chelcie Juliet Rowell
ZSR Library
Wake Forest University
rowellcj@wfu.edu
A POND FEEDING A
LAKE FEEDING AN
OCEAN
A DPLA Contributing Institution’s Perspective

2. POND FEEDING A LAKE FEEDING AN OCEAN

3. WHY ARE WE A PART OF THE DPLA?
A generative platform for unspecified future uses

4. 1OPPORTUNITY TO
IMPROVE METADATA
2ARCHIVAL REPRESENTATION
IN AN AGGREGATION
3TAKEAWAYS

5. OUR TACK  ITERATIVE, INCREMENTAL

6. WAKESPACE, WHERE WFU COLLECTIONS LIVE

7. DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 1:
REVISING RIGHTS STATEMENT

8. DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 2:
POPULATING DC.RIGHTS & DC.TYPE

9. DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 2:
POPULATING DC.RIGHTS & DC.TYPE

10. DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 3:
THUMBNAILS

11. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CYCLES:
ONGOING METADATA CLEANUP
Populate dc.coverage, dc.date, dc.subject…

12. 1OPPORTUNITY TO
IMPROVE METADATA
2ARCHIVAL REPRESENTATION
IN AN AGGREGATION
3TAKEAWAYS

13. DPLA BETA SPRINT PRESERVED CONTEXT
OF COLLECTIONS WITHIN AGGREGATION

14. DPLA BETA SPRINT PRESERVED CONTEXT
OF COLLECTIONS WITHIN AGGREGATION
COLLECTIONS!

15. IN CONTRAST, ITEM IN DPLA LINKS TO
ITEM FROM CONTRIBUTING INSTITUTION

16. CONTRIBUTING INSTITUTION, THEN,
COMMUNICATES ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT

17. CONTRIBUTING INSTITUTION, THEN,
COMMUNICATES ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT

18. 1OPPORTUNITY TO
IMPROVE METADATA
2ARCHIVAL REPRESENTATION
IN AN AGGREGATION
3TAKEAWAYS

19.  Increased traffic
 Opportunity to evaluate &
improve our metadata
 Ability to market digital
collections as data
 Ability to engage campus
communities in new ways
DPLA API workshop
DPLA Hackfest
PARTICIPATION IN THE DPLA OFFERS US

20. QUESTIONS?

21.  SLIDE 2: Dan Cohen. “The Digital Public Library of America:
Coming Together.”
http://www.dancohen.org/2012/10/16/the-digital-public-
library-of-america-coming-together.
 SLIDE 4: Ed Summers. “The DPLA as a generative platform.”
http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/05/25/the-dpla-as-a-
generative-platform/.
 SLIDE 7: ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use.
http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/copyright-ip/fair-use/code-of-
best-practices.
 SLIDES 13–14: Beta Sprint Entry: CLIR DLF/IMLS DCC.
http://dp.la/info/entries/dlfdcc-dpla-beta-sprint.
LEARN MORE

22.  Slide
2:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark_Columbi
a_River.jpg.
 Slide 3:
https://flic.kr/p/azdD9y.
 Slide 5:
https://flic.kr/p/bSkmcX.
 Slide 7:http://www.arl.org/storage/images/fair-use-
infographic-aug2013-1200x7050.png.
 Slide 19:
http://wiki.dpconline.org/index.php?title=File:Hackathon.png.
 Slide 20:
http://research.archives.gov/description/180103.
IMAGE CREDITS