Harnessing the Lifecycle: Planning and Implementing a Strategic Digital Coll...
Rethinking shared metadata at the platform level
1. Rethinking shared metadata
at the platform level
Terry Reese
Head, Digital Initiatives
The Ohio State University
Potential impacts of national repository efforts like the Digital Public
Library of America
4. ….to meet the challenge of re-envisioning library
spaces as a platform for research
http://www.cni.org/topics/learning-spaces/the-library-building-as-research-
platform/
5. 100,000 ft view
Evolving the role of the library from just information provider, to that of a key partner throughout
the research process
http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/jstor-tool/
Greater reliance on webs of data
And the emergence of services developed from their aggregates
Identities
DPLA Map
We are starting to see the end of boutique development, collections, and local metadata schemas in
the library space
Standards
if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. (http://projecthydra.org/)
7. 50,000 ft view
Libraries as virtual spaces
And promotion of equity of access
Blurring of differences between public/private/academic needs
Libraries are comfortable with silos, let’s own it, and come to terms with it
12. 30,000 ft view
Large data aggregations and partnerships like the DPLA and Europeana will
redefine and change for the better our notions of attribution or licensing of
metadata
Information doesn’t want to just be free, it wants to be very promiscuous.
Libraries will largely recognize and adopt crowd-source metadata description
for special and unique collections
The institution will continue to become more transparent, as aggregations
and linked data create the ability to create exhibits and collections from
multiple sources.
15. Why is the DPLA Important
Why is this important?
The content is interesting, but not the most interesting part – what is most
interesting is
A large corpus of Metadata released under CC0 license (essentially into the public domain)
Metadata being used as a platform
Potential to build new services
Potential to build new applications
Pushes libraries to think critically about the partners they work with an how those
partnerships can have impacts downstream
Potentially, it starts to change the nature of how people interact with the library and it’s
metadata.