The Digital Public Library of America: How will it benefit my patrons? How are Missouri libraries participating? Emily Jaycox Missouri History Museum
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Missouri Hub Launched Fall
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visit dp.la Bringing together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums to make them freely available to the world 15
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DPLA hub model
Content hubs - Service hubs
PONDS LAKES OCEAN LocalRegionalNational Service hub model (MoHub is a service hub) Users / Visitors / Researchers
Visit dp.la Hubs regularize metadata DPLA in a unified stream DPLA stores Metadata + Link to Thumbnail (if exists) + Link User goes to resource in home repository DPLA does value-added post-processing on the metadata to enable search facets for DATE & PLACE Richer discovery experience 21
MissouriHub timeline 2013: Informal conversations 2014: Admin and tech work – Missouri History Museum coordination – October: first ingest 2015: – New partners added and in conversation – Summer roadshows, governance talks – Oct 2015 goal: Bylaws at MLA/KLA 22
Steps to Becoming a Partner Your Institution Here! Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Confirm technical feasibility Connect and send metadata (batch ingestion) Participate in Partners Council ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNICAL 23
For more details, attend DPLA: how can my library participate ? Tues. June 4:10pm or contact me: Next Steps 24