An overview of how content from Wisconsin’s libraries, archives and museums is shared with the Digital Public Library of America through the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub. Updates on Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA’s current initiatives in outreach, education and copyright. Presented for the 2018 conferences of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and the Wisconsin Public Library Association.

1. WHAT’S NEW? WHAT’S NEXT?
Josh Hickman, Beloit College
Gail Murray, DPI
Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS
WAAL & WAPL 2018

2. The Digital Public Library of America is a
free national digital library that provides
access to millions of materials from libraries,
archives and museums across the US.

3. A RESEARCH PORTAL

4. EXPLORE EXHIBITIONS

5. DPLA in the CLASSROOM

6. WHERE DOES THE CONTENT
COME FROM?

7. CONTENT AND SERVICE
HUBS

8. CONTENT HUBS
See full list at pro.dp.la/hubs

9. SERVICE HUBS
See full list at pro.dp.la/hubs

11. Recollection Wisconsin is the DPLA
Service Hub in our state. It is the on-ramp for
Wisconsin libraries, archives and museums
to contribute content to DPLA.

12. A COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM

14. OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH
Data
Provider
Service
Provider
Aggregated
Data
475,000 records
METADATA AGGREGATION
OAI-PMH
Data
Provider

15. COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
• Digital projects consulting and
training
• Content hosting
• Guidelines and standards
○ Metadata Essentials
○ Oral histories
• Metadata templates
• Metadata Checker tools
• Digitization vendor list and tips
UW-Madison Archives

16. WHAT’S NEW?
WHAT’S NEXT?

17. NEW WEBSITE

18. USER GUIDES

19. BROWSE BY TOPIC

20. CITATION FUNCTION

21. News on the Margins
Building digital directories of newspapers
by and for marginalized communities
https://educopia.org/research/margins

22. Rights Statements
https://rightsstatements.org

23. CURRENT LANDSCAPE: MESSY

24. RIGHTS STATEMENTS
CLEAR RIGHTS LABELING = CLEAR ACCESS & REUSE

25. Hub Membership Program
• Network Council
• Advisory Council
• Working groups

26. NETWORK COUNCIL
One representative from each
Member Hub
• Provide oversight to Working
Groups and Task Forces, including
identifying and recruiting
participants
• Surface network-wide issues and
opportunities for collaboration
• Elect a Chair and Co-Chair who will
serve as ex-officio members of the
Advisory Council
• Vote on matters such as changes
to the governance structure and
members of the Advisory Council
Wisconsin’s Network Council rep:
Ann Hanlon
Head, Digital Collections and
Initiatives, UW-Milwaukee

27. ADVISORY COUNCIL
Includes up to seven Member Hub
representatives
• Work closely with DPLA staff to set
network priorities, explore new
initiatives, resolve issues
• Approve new Working Groups/Task
Forces
• Identify strategic opportunities and
potential network initiatives, at large
and through consultation with the
Network Council
• Advocate with external funding
sources, as appropriate, to support
projects and programs of high interest
to the membership
Advisory Council rep:
Emily P.

28. WORKING GROUPS
• Assessment
Analytics, usage statistics, qualitative info on use/impact
• Outreach
Identify audiences, strategies for reaching new audiences
• Metadata
Review and update DPLA MAP, metadata quality
assessment projects
• Rights Statements
Develop resources for implementation of
rightsstatements.org
• Technical Capacity
Shared tools and workflows for ingest activities, persistent
identifiers, IIIF, etc.

29. WHAT’S NEW?
WHAT’S NEXT?

30. NEW WEBSITE
Preview at http://dev.recollectionwisconsin.org

31. NEW WEBSITE
Preview at http://dev.recollectionwisconsin.org

32. ● IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant
● Summer practicum placements for UW-Madison and UW-
Milwaukee LIS graduate students at small/mid-sized
libraries & cultural heritage organizations across Wisconsin
● Provide training and practical assistance to improve
stewardship of existing digital assets

33. ● Three-person teams
○ Student
○ Host Site supervisor
○ Professional mentor
● Cohort model
○ Summer 2018: 6 teams
○ Summer 2019: 10 teams
● Grant narrative, core values and other documentation:
http://recollectionwisconsin.org/digipres

34. LISTENING TO WAR
Digitizing Wisconsin’s
Wartime Oral Histories
● NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant
● Digitize, preserve and share 1,100 wartime oral history interviews
from 22 Wisconsin collections
● Builds on 2016-2017 planning grant
● Partnering with Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin
Veterans Museum
● More information:
http://recollectionwisconsin.org/wioralhistory

35. RIGHTS STATEMENTS

36. Thank you!
Josh Hickman
hickmanj@beloit.edu
Emily Pfotenhauer
emily@wils.org