the dpla and ny heritage for tech camp 2014
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This is an introduction to the Digital Public Library of America and to New York Heritage. It was put together for showing these web sites to school media librarians and others, an helping them to use it more effectively. It may also be used to find items for use in the Common Core curriculum.TRANSCRIPT
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Digital Public Library of America and
New York Heritage
For Tech Camp 2014
What, Where, Who, Why, How?
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What is the Digital Public Library of America?
DPLA is an all-digital library that utilizes metadata and images
from many institutions all over the world.
Some basic questions:
• Where is it located?• Who is this?• Why should you be interested?• How does it work?
A further description of the DPLA
• Officially, the DPLA is “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that [draws] on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives and museums in order to educate , inform, and empower everyone on current and future generations”.
• So, it’s not a place, but a pointer.• Unoffically – it’s really cool! Here’s why I think so…
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• The DPLA is essentially a single point of entry for a hub of information
• It’s an easy on-ramp for smaller organizations• The DPLA contains aggregated metadata - not
the actual online items. Those remain at their original location.
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Where and who?• People, places…
How is it paid for? - Private sources include the Sloan Foundation (which provided the initial planning grant, the first large grant award of $2.5 million,the Arcadia
Fund (which matched Sloan with another $2.5 million), the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute, the Mellon Foundation and, most recently, the Knight Foundation (which has just provided $1 million to support the new service and content hubs in several of Knight’s core
communities). Public agencies include the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has provided two grants, totaling more than $1 million)
and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
When did it go live? -
April 18, 2013.
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Why should be you be interested?
• Because…the DPLA is great at providing context, pulling together strands of our history and cultural heritage, and organizing those strands into one tapestry of common knowledge.
• Contextualizing history, as told through the primary source documents like government documents and images is, in my mind, the #1 thing that DPLA does.
• And what good is a collection that no one uses?
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Copyright?
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And open access….
A PORTAL FOR DISCOVERYA PLATFORM TO BUILD
UPONA STRONG PUBLIC OPTION
Remember the 3P’s:
A PORTAL FOR DISCOVERY
EXPLORE THROUGH TIME
BROWSE BY PLACE
BROWSE BY VIRTUAL BOOKSHELF
EXPLORE CURATED EXHIBITS
WHERE DOES THE CONTENT
COME FROM?
18 Hubs and growing
National network of partners
CONTENT HUBS
SERVICE HUBS
PONDS --> LAKES --> OCEAN
OpenPics
INNOVATIVE APPS
Works great on phones
and tablets!
CULTURE COLLAGE
Free and non-copyrighted data
geonames.org/4901594
ENHANCED DATA
NATIONAL NETWORK, LOCAL IMPACT,GLOBAL REACH
The Context
• Lots of cultural heritage content is already available online, and more content is coming online every day.
The Problem•Unfortunately, much of this distributed
content is poorly discoverable and underutilized by prospective users.
•That is to say, what good is a collection if no one knows about it or uses it?
Because after all,
Summary
• DPLA is a networking platform that helps cultural organizations maximize the discovery and use of their content.
A group of librarians in the Kaaterskill (Catskill Mountains, New York),1913. F. W. Faxon. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AmericanLibrary Association Archives
Locally…• Empire State Digital Network (New York)… the ESDN is
the first service hub to be created explicitly as a means for sharing New York’s rich digital cultural heritage with the DPLA. The Network will be administered by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) in collaboration with eight allied regional library councils collectively working as NY3Rs Association.This includes the RRLC.
• Together, they will provide the necessary personnel and technological infrastructure needed to contribute digital resources from hundreds of New York’s libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions to the Digital Public Library of America.
An example of PondsStreamsOceans
• Which is a fancy way of saying that members of the NewYorkHeritage.org site will be members of the ESDN and thus in the DPLA.
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Further information?
• Who are local members?• Who do you ask for detailed information - how
to join, costs involved expectations, etc?• Frances Andreu - at the RRLC• Experiences as a volunteer cataloging
metadata and scanning - Larry Naukam
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NewYorkHeritage.org
What is the New York Heritage Digital
Collections Project?
• The New York Heritage Digital Collections website, a project of the NY3Rs Councils, provides the public with free access to digitized collections of historical and cultural interest in New York State.
• It acts as a gateway to digital heritage collections across New York State.
• It offers a federated search of multiple CONTENTdm servers from the regional 3Rs Councils.
• The goal of the project is to eventually connect 1000 collections and 1 million items throughout New York State. At present there are about 300 members and 300,000 items.
There are Nine Regional 3Rs Councils
The Collections
• The collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly and cultural materials.
• Collections are held in libraries, museums and archives throughout the state.
• The collections are used by educators, students, researchers, genealogists, alumni, and donors.
• Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books and more.
How can the collections be used?
• School libraries can use the collections to connect to the curriculum and promote the use of primary source materials.
• Public libraries can promote local history.• The project allows for the public’s safe use of a
library’s “delicate” materials. • Researchers can search multiple collections by
location and item type.
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Here is a sample slide from the project client.
This one is from the scanner software.
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A sample booklet
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Choose a type of search:
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An example of amplified data
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Fuller information on John R. Dixon, a Civil War soldier:
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There is also a blog:
This picture blinks
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The Bicentennial booklet is a “compound object” of 30 some pages
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This was greatly oversized, stitched together by the “Flip-Pal”:
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Stats? You want stats?
Geneva Historical Society: 2754 items 3724 page views of this one collection in the past 7 months! NY Heritage has 213 collections total with 449,239 items. We had over 2 million site views with 479,521 views of RRLC collections. RRLC currently has 17 contributors, with 61 different collections.
More specifically:
Between November 28th, 2012 and March 31st, 2013, we had 13,071 visits to nyheritage.org from 9,044 unique visitors, which amounted to 37,442 page views. Between August 27th, 2012 and November 28th, 2012, we had 5,728 visits from 3,935 unique visitors, amounting to 23,534 page views.
Extrapolating from those figures, nyheritage.org had about 28,000 visits from April 1st, 2012 to March 31st, 2013, and about 130,000 page views from about 23,000 unique visitors.
Now that we are a going to be part of the service hub for DPLA, [Digital Public Library of America] we will be included in that. This will be huge for our viewership.
Sounds good to have collections more
accessible!
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Teaching the Hudson ValleyBeyond Field Trips
Teaching The Hudson Valley In Tough Times
Finding Free Primary Sources Onlineand
Using Them In Your Classroom
Tessa Killian
Southeastern NY Library ResourcesCouncil
Susan Stessin-Cohn
Historic Huguenot Street
Schultz's Studio, New Paltz, N.Y. Cows infront of the New Paltz Creamery. Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection, EltingMemorial Library
Outline
• Primary sources
• Tour of online digital collections that contain primary sources
• Examples of lessons created from primary sources
• Try a lesson
• Create a lesson using aprimary source
World War II collection of boxes for theRed Cross at a Milton School. Marlboro
Free Library.
Primary Sources
Visual MaterialMapsFilms and VideosFine Art –paintings, prints &drawingsPhotographsDaguerreotypes
AudioSpeechesMusicInterviewsRadio Shows
PlacesCemeteriesCultured Landscapes –Ellis Island, Gettysburg, ColonialWilliamsburgHistoric Museums -Historic Huguenot Street,Philipsburg Manor, etc.Parks
ObjectsHousehold Appliances& ToolsToys
Buildings
Monuments
Clothing
PrimaryDocuments
Census recordsGovernment records
Personal papersBusiness records
Organizational recordsSpecial formats
Where to find primary sources online… Digital collections contain primary source materials
Available from libraries, archives, museums and
cultural heritage organizations (national, state,
regional, university);
Have search and browse capabilities;
Include information about the resources
(bibliographic record or metadata);
Allow us to view and use materials that may
otherwise be unavailable.
Highway Bridge over Esopus Creek. NewYork State Archives
New York Heritage
Hudson River Valley Heritagehttp://www.hrvh.org/
Exhibit in HRVH: The Missing Chapter
Citing Sources & Copyright
MLA Format for a photograph:Cramer, Konrad. Konrad Cramer Photograph of Hervey White.
Woodstock Public Library District. 24 July 2006 <http://www.hrvh.org/u?/woodstock,108>.
Teaching The Hudson Valleyhttp://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/