A Pond Feeding a Lake Feeding an Ocean: Wake Forest University as a Contributing Institution to the...

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Wake Forest University has begun contributing digital collections to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) via the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center Service Hub. Each month, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center aggregates OAI-PMH feeds of digital collections of contributing North Carolina institutions, and the DPLA in turn harvests this aggregation. Wake Forest is using participation in the DPLA as an opportunity to assess and clean up its metadata. Borrowing the principal of iterative and incremental development from the agile software development community, each monthly harvest is treated as a four-week development cycle during which small but meaningful improvements to metadata are identified and implemented (e.g. revising rights statement or populating the dc.date.created field). In contrast to a model that delivers a finished product only at the end of a project timeline, this approach allows the organization to immediately reap the benefits of participation in the DPLA, such as increased referrals to digital materials from the DPLA site and API. A presentation at the the Coalition for Networked Information 2014 Spring Membership Meeting.

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D ig i ta l In i t i a t i ves L ibrar ian

Wake Forest Un ivers i ty

1 Apr i l 2014

A POND FEEDING A LAKE FEEDING AN

OCEANWake Forest University as a Contributing Institution to

the DPLA

POND FEEDING A LAKE FEEDING AN OCEAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark_Columbia_River.jpg

2LAKE: SERVICE HUB

POND:CONTRIBUTING

INSTITUTION

OCEAN: DPLA 1

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PURPOSE OF THE DPLA

A generative platform for unspecified future uses

2LAKE: SERVICE HUB

POND:CONTRIBUTING

INSTITUTION

OCEAN: DPLA 1

3

DPLA SERVICE HUB

CONTRIBUTORS VIA DIGITALNC

CONTRIBUTORS VIA FEEDS

INGEST PROCESS

BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATING

100–200 visits per

month

300 page views

per month

2LAKE: SERVICE HUB

POND:CONTRIBUTING

INSTITUTION

OCEAN: DPLA 1

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OUR TACK ITERATIVE, INCREMENTAL

WAKESPACE, WHERE WFU COLLECTIONS LIVE

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 1:CONTRIBUTING SELECTED

COLLECTIONS

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 2:REVISING RIGHTS STATEMENT

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 3:POPULATING DC.RIGHTS & DC.TYPE

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 3:POPULATING DC.RIGHTS & DC.TYPE

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 4:THUMBNAILS

DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 5:FROM QUALIFIED DUBLIN CORE TO

MODS

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CYCLES:ONGOING METADATA CLEANUP

Increased traffi cOpportunity to

continually evaluate & improve our metadata

Ability to market our digital collections as data

Ability to engage our public in new ways DPLA API workshop DPLA Hackfest

PARTICIPATION IN THE DPLA OFFERS US

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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/.

WORKS MENTIONED

Slide 2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark_Columbia_River.jpg

Slide 4https://fl ic.kr/p/azdD9y

Slide 6http://www.digitalnc.org

Slide 7http://www.digitalnc.org/institutions

Slide 12https://fl ic.kr/p/bSkmcX

IMAGE CREDITS