LIS 670 Cultural Heritage Description and Access

Dr. Cristina Pattuelli

Spring 2014

Ellie Horowitz & Meredith Powers

agenda➔ Introduction to DPLA

➔ Intended User Communities: Whom does the DPLA intend to serve? How do they do it?

➔Knowledge Structure + Organization:How does DPLA’s back-end run? What does their metadata look

like and what can one do with that metadata?

➔Looking Ahead:What challenges does DPLA face? In what areas is there room to

grow?

DPLA Mission

Officially established in 2013, the Digital Public Library of America

“...strives to contain the full breadth of human expression,

from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records

of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science…”

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Intended Community Experience

Outreach

➔ Intended user group:

While the DPLA stresses its potential use in an educational environment, it most obviously

intends to be the free, mostly-publicly-funded resource for the general American public

➔ Strong outreach needed:

DPLA must prove its worth as a pedagogical tool in every classroom, and must reflect the

country’s diversity in every way

➔ Community Reps:

Program enlists enthusiastic volunteers nationwide to disseminate information about DPLA in

various cultural heritage and LIS environments

User Interface

search

portal

browse by

collection

browse by map

browse by

date/timeline

Search Portal

Collection-level browsing

Browse curated collections with contextual narratives

Location-data browsing

Find items based on the location of their contributing institution

Browsing by time

Browse by an item’s creation date

Contributing Institutions➔ The DPLA Digital Hubs Program is the heart of the DPLA; intended to establish national network

of state/regional libraries and large digital libraries in order to share digital content;

funded by NEH, IMLS, John S. & James L. Knight Foundation

➔ Service Hubs are state or regional libraries that aggregate metadata from institutions across their

state or region, harmonize those records with the DPLA-MAP, and submit them to the DPLA

(examples include Connecticut Digital Archive, Montana Memory Project, Digital Commonwealth

of Massachusetts)

➔ Content Hubs are large digital libraries, museums, archives, or repositories that are committed to

maintaining the metadata records they contribute to DPLA. They usually deposit at least 200,000

unique records (examples include the Internet Archive, U.S. Gov’t Printing Office, ARTstor,

California Digital Library, Smithsonian)

Knowledge Structure and Organization

DPLA Domain Model, v.3

from Metadata application profile, version 3 (DPLA, 2013).

DPLA MAP classes and properties

DPLA MAP class=“dpla:Place”

from Metadata application profile, version 3 (DPLA, 2013)

Planned changes for class=“dpla:Place”from Metadata application profile, version 3 (DPLA, 2013)

The entire DPLA schema is available on githubhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/dpla/schema/master/dpla_map_3.owl

Fall 2012 DPLA Appfest

BiblioGrapher is a proposal from Summer Leinart, Jeremy Throne, Matthew Battles, Yanni

Loukissas, Joshua Cash, Jessica Donaldson, Jim Reece, and Cesar Garza.

“DPLA Map” App created by Ed Summers. Available via http://inkdroid.org/dpla-map/

Red pins

represent

related DPLA

content

Hovering red pins

displays links to

available content

Clicking takes you

to the DPLA object

record

Looking Ahead

Challenges

➔ Fair Use

➔ Privacy

➔ Access

➔ Copyright

➔ Digital Rights Management

➔ Collective Licensing

Opportunities: User Interface

semantic process

description

dynamic information

about the video

skills and cultural

narratives portal

from CultureSampo, Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0 (http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/ff.shtml?lang=en)

Opportunities: User Interface

Social path

connecting

selected

individuals

Frank LLoyd

Wright’s social

network

from CultureSampo, Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0 (http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/ff.shtml?lang=en)

Opportunities: Relational Search

References

Abbott, F. (2014, April 28). Community reps: A handy guide to who they are and what they are doing. Retrieved from http://dp.la/info/2014/04/28/community-reps-a-handy-guide-to-who-they-are-and-what-they-are-doing/

DPLA. (2013 February 8). Metadata application profile, version 3. Retrieved April 9, 2014 from http://dp.la/about/map

DPLA. (n.d.). About. Retrieved April 9, 2014 from http://dp.la/info/

DPLA. (n.d.). API codex: philosophy. Retrieved April 9, 2014 from DPLA Policies: http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/policies/philosophy/

DPLA. (n.d.) Apps. Retrieved April 18, 2014 from http://dp.la/info/developers/appfest/the-apps/

DPLA. (n.d.). Hubs. Retrieved April 18, 2014 from http://dp.la/info/about/hubs/

Hyvönen, E., Mäkelä, E., Kauppinen, T., Alm, O., Kurki, J., Ruotsalo, T., ... & Nyberg, K. (2009). CultureSampo - Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0: Thematic Perspectives for the End-user . Museums and the Web 2009: International Conference for Culture and Heritage Online. Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/hyvonen/hyvonen.html