Arlene Weible Oregon State Library Orbis Cascade Alliance Meeting July 8, 2015

 2013 –Oregon Digital Collection PlanOregon Digital Collection Plan ◦ Funded by State Library with LSTA money ◦ Environmental scan and recommendations; one recommendation suggested stakeholder meeting  2014 – DPLA Metadatathon and Oregon Historical Society Library Advisory Council Meetings ◦ Identified need for meeting to explore collaboration and more education about DPLA

 2014 – Planning group formed ◦ Initially Oregon only, funding from LSTA “end of year” money ◦ Expanded to WA after reaching out to WA State Library for financial support  Planning Group Arlene Weible, Oregon State Library Evan Robb, Washington State Library Geoff Wexler, Oregon Historical Society Kyle Jansson, Oregon Heritage Commission Karen Estlund, University of Oregon Ann Lally, University of Washington Danielle Cunniff Plumer, DCPlumer Associates, Meeting Facilitator

 Presentation From DPLA  Collaborative Projects Reports ◦ Washington Rural Heritage Washington Rural Heritage ◦ Oregon Digital and Historic Oregon Newspapers Oregon DigitalHistoric Oregon Newspapers ◦ University of Washington Digital Collections and King County Collects University of Washington Digital Collections King County Collects ◦ Northwest Digital Archives/Archives West Northwest Digital Archives/Archives West ◦ Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Content Creation & Dissemination Team Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Content Creation & Dissemination Team ◦ Washington County Heritage Online Washington County Heritage Online ◦ Southern Oregon Digital Archives Southern Oregon Digital Archives

 Discussion Groups ◦ Outreach & Communication ◦ Leadership & Collaboration ◦ Training Opportunities & Needs ◦ Digitization Priorities ◦ Funding Sources & Needs ◦ Providing Content and Services ◦ Standards & Best Practices

 Host a summit of funding agencies to work toward adoption of shared standards for digitization and metadata  Explore support for a shared regional digital content system

 Support existing local and regional collaborative digitization projects, as well as existing statewide newspaper digitization programs in both Washington and Oregon  Develop various written materials (toolkits, outreach materials, etc.) focused on broad community participation and establish a shared list for distribution of materials and project updates

 Encourage institutions in Washington and Oregon to form one or more initial collaborative project(s) focused on eventual participation in the DPLA  Support the option of participation in the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Content Creation & Dissemination (CCD) Program for OCA members

 Host a summit of funding agencies to work toward adoption of shared standards for digitization and metadata  Schedule a second regional summit in spring or summer 2016 to continue the conversations begun at the 2015 Summit

 Identify and broadly promote low or no-cost training opportunities at a variety of levels  Invite key participants from institutions with digital collections to form an initial Steering Committee to organize activities listed above

 Help plan meeting of funding agencies in collaboration with Oregon Heritage Commission  Establish list for information sharing  LSTA competitive grants ◦ Preference to collaborative projects with focus on Oregon heritage materials ◦ DPLA compatible projects

 Focus on needs of small institutions ◦ Discuss collaboration opportunities with Washington State Library (possible IMLS funding) ◦ Training and other resource needs

 Full Report:  Arlene Weible, Electronic Services Consultant Phone: