Lecture given in Mizzou's "Digital Libraries" course to describe the formation of the Missouri Service Hub for the Digital Public Library of America.

1. BUILDING THE
MISSOURI HUB
FOR DPLA
Chris Freeland
Associate
University
Librarian
Washington
University
Libraries
@chrisfreeland

2.  ABOUT ME
 Associate University Librarian, WUSTL
 Former Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics,
Missouri Botanical Garden
 Founding Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library
 AGENDA
 ABOUT DPLA
 FORMATION OF THE MISSOURI HUB
 TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS
 LOOKING AHEAD
TODAY
@chrisfreeland

3. ABOUT DPLA

4. WHAT IS DPLA?
A PORTAL FOR DISCOVERY
http://dp.la
A PLATFORM TO BUILD UPON
A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION

12. WHAT IS DPLA?
A PORTAL FOR DISCOVERY
A PLATFORM TO BUILD UPON
A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION

14. WHAT IS DPLA?
A PORTAL FOR DISCOVERY
A PLATFORM TO BUILD UPON
A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION

15. “Bring together the riches of
America’s libraries, archives,
and museums to make them
freely available to the world”
DPLA’S MISSION

16. DPLA IS A METADATA REPOSITORY
SERVICE HUBS CONTENT HUBS
DPLA
PLATFORM
INGESTION
METADATA REPOSITORY
API
FRONT END
APPS
OAI-PMH

17. CONTENT HUBS – large providers

18. SERVICE HUBS – collaboratives

19. MY HISTORY WITH DPLA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/5492707048/Jessamyn West, March 2011.

20. FORMATION OF
MISSOURI HUB

21.  We want our content to reach as wide an audience as possible
 We want Missouri’s cultural heritage organizations to be part of
a national dialogue on 21st century scholarship
 Participate in & lead discussions
 We want to see Missouri accurately represented in a large
national repository
 Early content in DPLA told a random story about Missouri
 But what about Missouri Digital Heritage? Could it be the Service
Hub?...
WHY CREATE A SERVICE HUB
FOR MISSOURI?

23. Kansas City
Public
Library
Washington
University
Missouri
History
Museum
Linda Hall
Library
St. Louis
Public
Library
Federal
Reserve
Bank of
St. Louis
UM – St.
Louis
Springfield
– Greene
Co. Public
Library
Saint Louis
University
State
Historical
Society of
Missouri

24.  2013: Agenda-setting
 Informal conversations
 Why DPLA?
 Who could be the organizer of a Service Hub?
 2014: Defining & redefining structure
 Missouri History Museum coordination
 MOUs between partners
 October 1, 2014: first ingest
 2015: Routinizing
 New partners & content
 Formulation of bylaws & governance
 New Missouri Hub members appoint an administrative & technical contact
MISSOURI HUB TIMELINE

25. IMPACT OF MISSOURI HUB
ON DPLA CONTENT
2013 2016

26. TECH CONSIDERATIONS

27.  Led by David Henry at Missouri History Museum
 Similar technology profile as used by other Service Hubs
 REPOX & OAI-PMH
 Guidance from community of developers and DPLA staff
 Shared technology experience
 David works with the tech contact at the Missouri Hub partner
institution to ingest & troubleshoot
TECHNICAL ENGINEERING

28. LOOKING AHEAD

29.  Establishing organizational norms
 Governance structure is new
 Annual elections for Steering Committee in fall
 New members
 More is more!
 Doing more with our content
 What could we do with Missouri Hub metadata?
 What more could our organizations be doing together?
 More outreach
 Via social media & in-person presentations
NEXT STEPS

30. BUILDING THE
MISSOURI HUB
FOR DPLA
Chris Freeland
Associate
University
Librarian
Washington
University
Libraries
@chrisfreeland