The presentation will provide an overview of DPLA, including the current partnership model and future plans for growth. The talk will also describe DPLA’s infrastructure and technologies, metadata model, open access and rights policies, as well as DPLA outreach and engagement programs.

1. Introduction and update
WILS Peer Council, 2014
June 2014
Amy Rudersdorf
Assistant Director for Content
amy@dp.la / @rudeamy

3. http://dp.la

5. Partnership model:
!
Where do the millions of records come from?

7. CONTENT HUBS

8. SERVICE HUBS

10. 12 Content Hubs
+ 9 Service Hubs
!
1,300 Partners

15. DPLA is . . .
a Portal for discovery
a Platform to build upon
an advocate for a
strong Public option

16. a Portal for discovery

23. a Platform to build upon
http://dp.la/info/developers/

26. http://dp.la/apps

29. an advocate for a
strong public option
Wausau Public Library.
ALA Archive, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

30. Andrew Carnegie and wife. Photo by Leslie Jones.
Copyright (c) Leslie Jones. CC BY-NC-ND.
Boston Public Library via the Digital Commonwealth

31. Benefits of participation

32. Increased access

33. Rudolph Volk and Martin Klein in an old automobile, east of St. Peter, Minnesota, 1907?.
Nicollet County Historical Society via Minnesota Digital Library

35. Enhanced data

39. The New York Public Library

40. Increased visibility

41. “…The library’s holdings, which come from institutions
ranging from the Smithsonian and the New York Public
Library to the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and the
Montana Memory Project, include items in more than
400 languages…”
!
April 22, 2014, The New York Times ArtsBeat blog

42. Increased usage

43. Mountain West Digital Library reports that in the first
eight months of participation in DPLA, the number of visits
and the total number of visitors to their site have both
increased by more than 100%; site visit lengths have
increased to nearly three minutes per visit.
Minnesota Digital Library has seen a 55-percent
increase in traffic to its repository site since April 2013
DPLA attracted over 1 million unique visitors to its website
and over 9 million hits to its API (application programming
interface) in the first year

44. Benefits of partnership … from their perspective

45. http://creativelibrariesutah.org/2014/04/21/mountain-west-digital-library-2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5aX-tlsqkk

46. How can I participate?

48. 1. Consider your Hub “type” (or consult with us)
(http://dp.la/info/get-involved/partnerships/)
2. Find some partners!*
3. Contact us (content@dp.la)
4. Agree to open your metadata as public domain / CC0
determination
5. Sign the data exchange agreement
6. Map your data to our metadata application profile (we’ll help)
7. Provide a single endpoint (feed) so we can grab your data
8. Start sharing!

53. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Collection