Pennsylvania Digital Collections Project DPLA Hub Update Doreva Belfiore Digital Projects Librarian, Temple University PDCP Co-Project Manager PALA 2015 - October 7, 2015
Toward a PA DPLA Hub August 2014: meeting at the Free Library of Philadelphia Initiated by Joe Lucia and Stacey Aldrich, former PA State Librarian Including representatives from a number of institutions across the state
Founders
Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la
Why get involved? DPLA as major discoverability conduit: Worldwide exposure for PA content DPLA as a means of working efficiently: Collaboration at the cross-institutional level Taking advantage of economy of scale DPLA portal / api vs. customized siloes
DPLA Hub and Spoke Model Content Hubs: Single institutions, 200K+ objects, i.e. NARA, Hathi Trust, NYPL Service Hubs: Content aggregation for many institutions State/regional level; ideally 1:1 ratio Digital Commonwealth, Mountain West Digital Library, Empire State Digital Network
Toward a PA DPLA Hub Project Groups: Founder s Group = initial project conveners Planning Group = hands-on planning and oversight for communication, outreach & funding Aggregator Group = building infrastructure and workflows for metadata harvesting
Toward a PA DPLA Hub Research/Analysis: Survey of statewide digital collections 239 institutions, over ½ have digitized collections Outreach: Building communication channels via PADIGITAL listserv, conference participation, DPLA Community Reps Funding: Securing seed funding for initial project phase Sustainability of project over time
PA-DPLA Aggregator Proof-of-concept prototype Development: Pennsylvania State University / Temple University partnership Dec. 2014 - Mar. 2015 Hydra (Fedora) - Open Source Platform Harvesting & exposing metadata via OAI-PMH https://github.com/tulibraries/dplah Released production version Summer 2015
PA-DPLA Aggregator OAI-PMH Metadata - What we harvest & what the DPLA needs
PA-DPLA Aggregator http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator OAI-PMH Metadata - Human readable with faceting browsing and searching
PA-DPLA Aggregator http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator
PA-DPLA Aggregator http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator Kitchen Memories, Scranton Public Library, http://content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org/cdm/ref/collection/cookbooks/id/1657
Harvesting Data http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator-testing/
Testing Data http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator-testing/
Metadata Team Partnership: The Pennsylvania State University / State Library / Temple University / University of Scranton Developing metadata standards in line with DPLA requirements for MAP V. 4 Testing aggregator for metadata harvesting & normalization Interviewing potential contributing institutions and advising them about metadata and IP rights Developing PDCP metadata training materials
Prototype Harvested Content Lowest hanging fruit : OAI-PMH harvestable data 29 institutions, 147K+ harvested records http://libcollab.temple.edu/aggregator Primarily targeting collections from PDPC Steering and Planning Committee institutions Keep numbers manageable for testing purposes Scalable to full production mode for the future
Prototype: 1st Contributing Institutions Albright College Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives POWER Library Allegheny College La Salle University Scranton Public Library Bloomsburg University LancasterHistory.org Slippery Rock University California University of Pennsylvania Lock Haven University State Library of Pennsylvania Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Lycoming College Temple University Clarion University Meyersdale Public Library University of Pennsylvania Elizabethtown College Millersville University Villanova University Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Warren Library Association Keystone College Pennsylvania Highlands Community College West Chester University Keystone Library Network Pennsylvania Horticultural Society And more to come!
Digitization and Repository Support Activities Content Hosting: For organizations that already have digital files but no current digital repository capabilities Provided by POWER Library (HSLC) Free for Pennsylvania institutions Digitization: For organizations that have not started digitizing materials, or have not done much Potential for remote, local and mobile digitization options (a.k.a. scannebagos ) Provided by the State Library of Pennsylvania
Staffing & Funding Model Staffing: 1.0 FTE Project Manager Planning, Outreach, Metadata Split between 2 Temple University Librarians (Temple as contractor for PALCI) Many hours volunteered by partners on Planning and Aggregator/Metadata Group Seed funding: Generous support from the LSTA (IMLS) Funds from 4 contributing institutions: Free Library of Philadelphia The Pennsylvania State University Temple University University of Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Digital Collections Project (PDCP) is made possible in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.
SUCCESS! PDCP Announced as DPLA Pennsylvania Service hub, August 28, 2015! Estimated Timeline: September, 2015 - Orientation October-November, 2015 - Signing Legal Agreements, Metadata Revision October-December, 2015 - Metadata normalization, harvesting tests and QA Early 2016 - Planned live ingest of records into the DPLA! PA
For information / participation: Email the PDCP team: dplainpa@gmail.com Twitter: Follow us at @pdcp_pa PADIGITAL Listserv - general information about statewide digital initiatives PADIGITAL@listserv.albright.org Send a message to listserv@albright org with the text subscribe padigital in the body
Thanks to the following: PDCP Developer Group: Andrew Gearhart, The Pennsylvania State University Katherine Lynch, Temple University METADATA Steven Ng, Temple University PDCP Aggregator Group: Mohamed Berray, The Pennsylvania State University Ben Goldman, The Pennsylvania State University Patricia Hswe, The Pennsylvania State University Delphine Khanna, Temple University and the Developer and Metadata Groups http://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2006-07/w/4412/
Thanks to the following: PDCP Metadata Group: METADATA Linda Ballinger, The Pennylvania State University Doreva Belfiore, Temple University Bill Fee, State Library of Pennsylvania Leanne Finnigan, Temple University Kristen Yarmey, University of Scranton Original: The Doctor Is In, Peanuts Worldwide, LLC.
Thanks to the following: PDCP Planning Group: Doreva Belfiore, Temple University Pam Dinan, IDS-PA METADATA Ben Goldman, The Pennsylvania State University Patricia Hswe, The Pennsylvania State University Delphine Khanna, Temple University Alice Lubrecht, State Library of Pennsylvania David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania Maryam Phillips, HSLC Donald Root, Free Library of Philadelphia Scott Thomas, Scranton Public Library Cathy Wilt, PALCI http://planning.president.iastate.edu/