Current content strategic priorities will be discussed. Participants will also engage in an open discussion around areas for content growth. Session to be led by Emily Gore (DPLA).
Notes from this session are available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vchawj0pnjWLPuLdJnKfGa2ByZgr6WkIDT-L5NiZJUY&authuser=1
Participants in the Sloan-sponsored Ebook working group will present out on their respective projects, setting the stage for a later session on how DPLA can impact this sector. Session facilitators include Rachel Frick (DPLA), Dan Cohen (DPLA), and Micah May (NYPL).
Notes from this session are available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=13WTSkvgujqKbHLJFvHXQqYa-E1XBz3EMbnMoNqymLTg&authuser=1
This session is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with support from Bibliolabs.
Agenda to tentatively cover a strategy discussion around DPLA's new ingestion system, "aggregation in a box," and hosted or DPLA local services. Session to be led by Mark Matienzo (DPLA).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eXWKMZ6B0o7-a5HF6dghWb0fFu2hX5uMYZDDkE5bFNU&authuser=1
Building on the discussion of current activities in the ebook marketplace, participants will spend the afternoon identifying components required in order to launch a national strategy, build a prototype platform and open collections, and where the DPLA can provide support and leverage. Session facilitators include Rachel Frick (DPLA), Dan Cohen (DPLA), and Micah May (NYPL).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mk55d56JOnFLl5KF3WbG7AlFhk2yUCYXXXbduYULNu8&authuser=1
This session will identify lawsuits and policy initiatives that are of interest to DPLA partners, as well as a general strategy discussion around the state of copyright in the US and elsewhere as it applies to libraries and other cultural organizations.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w_aDqZUm6qGVdoDqjaesp3oTRvxe5N-fts8iPMgOwaQ&authuser=1
Beginning in 2015, organizations interested in becoming a DPLA Content Hub or Service Hub can apply during two open call cycles beginning each January and July. Applications are meant to aid organizations in understanding and preparing for the responsibilities of participating in the DPLA network as a Hub. Join DPLA staffers and current Hubs to learn more about what it takes to establish a DPLA Service Hub in your state or region. Session to be led by Emily Gore (DPLA) and Amy Rudersdorf (DPLA).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SVZvQSWwDyS_0sfbjM_5HpS1Ceexi8ioX_4phOqHAP8&authuser=1
Several cultural heritage institutions in Indiana have been working on documenting and sharing the heritage and history of the Indiana and Indianapolis LGBT community. In 2014 the Indiana Historical Society announced its 3-phased collecting strategy, starting with the Indianapolis and Central Indiana LGBT Oral History Project. These stories will become a piece of the Indiana Historical Society’s expanding collections. Around the same time the Indiana Landmarks Foundation announced its LGBT Heritage program which identifies, researches, and marks physical locations significant to LGBT history within Indiana. In 2010 The Chris Gonzalez Library & Archives, the brain child of life long Indiana resident and LGBT advocate Michael Bohr, partnered with IUPUI University Library and the Kinsey Institute to digitize and provide open access to early Indiana GLBT newsletters: http://kinseyinstitute.org/library/gonzalez.html. This session will share how these projects came to fruition and next steps for continuing to preserve Indiana’s LGBT history.
Slides available at: https://prezi.com/x4ex80da88ge/chris-gonzalez-library-and-archives-lgbt-digital-collection/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
Notes available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bDkrcFKFqJM8Gnl7NUG4iBvYlaRGhrDC-HLUuDOsh5M&authuser=1
This session will explore the value of Linked Data for DPLA and API users. Led by Tom Johnson (DPLA).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UBdRp0_No2oNNV8RjOhyEHchcs9d85McNq9rXykxpzc&authuser=1
Learn more about the DPLA's plans around education in this informative session detailing key findings from DPLA’s Whiting Foundation-funded education research work. Led by Franky Abbott (DPLA) and Dan Cohen (DPLA).
Final report available at http://dp.la/info/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Using-Large-Collections-in-Education-DPLA-paper-4-9-15-2.pdf
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mAcabx5vPw2D34AC8j0p6rWIZKu_2c9xFiaqIX23P4c&authuser=1
Participants in this session will review the ebook landscape for both public and academic libraries. This session will include a recap of the Sloan-funded ebook conversation from the previous day and identify breakout topics and groups to continue moving the conversations to action. Facilitated by Rachel Frick (DPLA) and Micah May (NYPL).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tfOLJ0_ETmGvI9Uok7W1shgPK_rXX2PWghv9m-UBVZo&authuser=1
Discussion of best practices for designing and maintaining a digitization training program or curriculum in this session led by two members of the DPLA Hub Network and participants in the Public Library Partnerships Project.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=19a73Yyw06crTcun87-b-Eeua0XwfD0XcugyyTfCGMaA&authuser=1
This presentation will summarize preliminary results of research into a quantitative analysis of metadata quality, using DPLA metadata as a test case. Data pre-processing, including converting metadata into a numeric representation of "completeness" and merging with Google Analytics data, will be discussed. Visualizations will be demonstrated, including representations of "usage" drawn from Google Analytics, comparison of metadata characteristics across hubs, and identification of unusual, "outlier" values. Finally, the presentation will outline next steps and initial work on analyzing and visualizing the content of metadata fields, applying natural language processing techniques, and evaluating that content's relationship to Google Analytics usage.
Visual accompanyment to Corey's presentation: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/chrpr/dpla-analytics/blob/master/nltk/demo.ipynb
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=17CV6JHXhArzw6B8WUdAsuUXlFGpiVouSB-1Ttw241H0&authuser=1
Participants in this session will work in the breakout groups identified in the previous session.
This session is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with support from Bibliolabs.
Join the DPLA Board of Directors for an open meeting. Led by John Palfrey (Phillips Academy of Andover) and the DPLA Board of Directors.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j6A96h7Y-4nnqYdWeM2ZL-JKTcXgSof-hS_qiwidYwY&authuser=1
The emergence of incredible, large online repositories of primary and second source data makes this the best of times for genealogists and others interested in exploring the past. Investigate and share experiences of using the DPLA and other free online resources to explore the history of one’s family and community. Led by Curt B. Witcher, Senior Manager of Genealogy & Special Collections, Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, IN).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gw87GSdLjGgk3r5hzKiXzTuHXg8Lv0roo2lHA__Ya6g&authuser=1
Opening museum collections digitally to the public can be a very complex task. From rights research to digitization, processes need to be established to make the move to digital seamless. The IMA recently utilized a cross-departmental team to bring digitization, rights clearance, and technology together, to create the most complete and open online collection the museum has offered. This session will cover the workflows and process designed to make this digital transition as efficient as possible including the utilization of a Digital Asset Management System, Collection Management System and custom software to bring it all to the masses. IMA presenters include Tascha Horowitz (Manager of Photography), Kyle Jaebker (Director IMA Lab), Anne Young (Manager of Rights and Reproduction).
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JuPe6zV_fk1nZnaa0b85tHvvHWN3xDAEC5jTBPvIwfg&authuser=1
DPLA’s “Getting it Right on Rights” project, funded by a Knight News Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is working to create a simplified and more coherent rights structure for content collections from libraries, museums, archives and other sources, along with best practices that institutions can use to safely make more content available to the public. Join Led by Emily Gore (DPLA), Greg Cram (NYPL), and Dave Hansen (UNC Chapel Hill) to learn more about the group's progress.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AgdoCnZqenGOd3elEFtna9QkF273i4uso1To3WUu4dI&authuser=1
Open access has forced scholars, libraries, professional organizations, and publishers to reimagine the ecologies in which scholarship is produced. It has shifted our assumptions about the processes of scholarly production and distribution. It has forced us to rethink our economies and the incentives that drive them. This panel discussion will examine the research library's role in both guiding and adapting to this constantly evolving environment. It will explore the ways that research libraries function as a central node in sustaining the ecology of open access.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=165nW4AjNI42EnvwJElXsR2AH3v7loX9Q5Dl2Y__pr8w&authuser=1
Participants will report out from their working groups and work out an action agenda to continue the work after DPLAfest. Dan Cohen will provide closing comments.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Jy8X9VsKEaT7vxsjpsgAGAvfqEys7MQ4cYRa4wzPXI&authuser=1
Project management is a critical discipline for digitization projects that enables high-quality preservation and accessibility of archives, while ensuring optimal use of time and resources. Digitization projects typically consist of millions of bits of metadata and files in complex formats, and require high accuracy levels. Good project management is necessary for the success of any project. However, when the project team is temporally, culturally, and geographically dispersed—as it often is for large digitization projects—project management, especially good communication between the stakeholders, is critical and essential.
In this panel session, four experts will share key principles of project management for large digitization projects. Jim Studnicki, Founder and President of Creekside Digital, will discuss the role of project management in providing the highest quality, standards-compliant digitization of cultural heritage materials. Patricia Lawton, Digital Projects Librarian for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), will identify and describe key steps in the development of the Catholic Newspapers Program within the context of a highly collaborative and distributed organization. Jenny Johnson, Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian, will provide insight into digitization project workflows based on in-house versus outsourcing digitization. Frederick Zarndt, Digitization and Archive Specialist for Digital Divide Data (DDD) and for the IFLA News Media Section and IFLA Committee on Standards, will share why clear communication, good planning, and detailed, unambiguous requirements are essential to the successful management of library digitization projects.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qqurCLm4hiA81rCKI6YgNgpVJ8xP7mHMGzK-r81sQBY&authuser=1
Copyright is the "engine of free expression," but its restrictions pose unique difficulties for digital libraries, particularly when it comes to providing access to copyrighted works. This panel will explore ways that copyright exceptions, legal reform, and author action can improve access to our cultural heritage without upending the traditional copyright bargain.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uq5jFEJMUqdAqja2J2b_IPeDY1O9KlUdcUtoUNHf8YI&authuser=1
The route to discovery for most students and researchers inevitably involves a Google search and then a click through to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where researchers congregate on the internet to begin their search, and to reach them, open cultural data and resource curators like DPLA and its affiliates need to be involved in the process that creates and curates Wikipedia. We will highlight the growing number of projects and programs developed by the Wikipedia Library and larger Wikipedia community that make Wikipedia a complementary partner to the efforts of DPLA. These projects have developed in cooperation with university libraries, archivists, cultural institutions, and organizations like DPLA, Europeana and OCLC.
The discussion will focus on helping cultural institutions decide how to best leverage Wikipedia using tools like: direct editing of Wikipedia to highlight and expose collections with editathons and image uploads, linking to finding aids on relevant articles, hosting Wikipedians-in-Residence, and integration with tools like WikipeDPLA. We will also explore new opportunities for collaboration— such as our Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program and the Wikipedia Education program. Our desire is to bring more archivists and cultural heritage curators into our midst as subject experts, connecting the circle of research and dissemination between readers, Wikipedia, and knowledge institutions.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a1MuJZfOHnY0lyrQM56f5bAbJkahsUSAJMSshytYLxQ&authuser=1
Over the last several years, libraries, archives and other memory institutions have recognized that copyright law poses a significant obstacle to digital preservation of and online access to large segments of their collections. This problem especially acute for archives and collections that contain orphan works—i.e., works for which it is difficult or impossible to find rights holders who might give permission for their use. The Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works for Libraries, Archives, and Other Memory Institutions, released in December 2014 and endorsed by a number of libraries and archives, including DPLA and several DPLA hubs, addresses how memory institutions can apply fair use to overcome these challenges. The Statement and supporting documentation is available online at http://cmsimpact.org/orphanworks.
This session will give an introduction to the Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works for Libraries, Archives, and Other Memory Institutions, followed by a short discussion of how to apply its recommendations about fair use to concrete examples of library digital collections.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pLs4KRdl3R6GuzLk-mWrZbailmQ_0E__n1VUKknPWJ8&authuser=1
Session Description: Of the many challenges for digital libraries such as DPLA and Europeana possibly the hardest is making the content you aggregate appeal to users.
Partly because: Users don't fall into neat, defined, audience; Content is heterogeneous; No user is interested in everything; Curation is resource intensive; True multilinguality of search remains a pipe dream. A solution we are working on is thematic user channels. Providing thematic access to the content curated by experts:
Europeana Fashion, Europeana Music, Europeana Art History; or access by profession: Europeana Research; or by media: Europeana Newspapers.
Participants are invited to critique the approach and discuss if it has a resonance or application for DPLA.
Notes available at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iU2ZWBKqAwjY60VWecVoaDkMBQ_gWkeB-BNeuhUxOvg&authuser=1
