PLANNING FOR A DPLA SERVICE HUB FOR NEW YORK STATE

1. PLANNING FOR A DPLA SERVICE HUB FOR NEW YORK STATE

2. Background: NPR piece, August 19, 2013 (audio) Combining The Nation's Digitized Libraries, All In One Place

3. DPLA currently has about 2.8 million items Map of items with geo-location information

4. DPLA Content Contribution Structure • Content Hubs (6)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dplaalpha/about/digital-hubs-pilot-project/dpla-content-hubs/ • Service Hubs (6)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dplaalpha/about/digital-hubs-pilot-project/service-hubs/

5. SERVICE HUBSService Hubs aggregate metadata that resolves to digital objects (online texts, photographs, manuscript material, art work, etc.) from local libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. These DPLA partners are committed to working with the DPLA on behalf of a geographic region or community. To date, all service hubs represent states or regions of the United States, but we envision working with non-geographic based service hubs as well. Under the Digital Hubs Pilot, Service Hubs also provide a full menu of standardized digital services to local institutions, including digitization, metadata consultation, metadata aggregation and storage services, as well as locally hosted community outreach programs that bring users in contact with digital content of local relevance.

6. A Service Hub can participate in a number ways. No matter the partnership model, Service Hubs commit to: • representing their community (state, region, etc.) as the metadata aggregation point for the DPLA, and having the community buy-in to do so; • actively addressing issues of metadata quality; • providing outreach to their metadata providers, including working in partnership with the DPLA to educate partner institutions on open data, data quality, data consistency, data standards, rights, and other relevant subjects; • maintaining technology or technologies (such as OAI-PMH, Resource Sync, etc.) that allow for metadata to be shared with the DPLA on a regular, consistent basis; and • actively engaging with the broader community of data creators, providers, and users.

7. Meeting at MOMA at July 30, 2013. Included: • DPLA (Dan Cohen, Emily Gore) • Metro • Sloan Foundation • NYPL • Columbia • Queens Public Library • Northern New York Library Council • Southeastern New York Library Council • Brooklyn Public Library • New York University • There was agreement in principle that METRO would take on the role of DPLA service hub for New York State.

8. Likely Preliminary Focus for Service Hub Collecting • New York Heritage - http://www.newyorkheritage.org/ • Hudson River Valley Heritage - http://www.hrvh.org/ • Long Island Library Resource Council - http://www.longislandmemories.org/ • METRO members collections - http://digitalmetro.contentdm.oclc.org/

9. Next Steps: • METRO will prepare a scope of work document for the New York DPLA service hub to be considered by METRO Board, NY3Rs Association, and DPLA. • Advisory committee and working groups will be assembled to oversee the project and provide guidance with respect to content selection, metadata profiles, etc... • With necessary components in place (MOUs defining responsibilities, assembly of advisory committee and working groups, etc...), an agreement can be signed with DPLA and the NY Service Hub can be announced in October.

10. Columbia initial contributions, starting in 2014, could include: • Community Service Society Photos • Lindquist Native American Photos • Biggert Architectural Vignettes • John Jay Papers • Herbert Lehman Papers • Urban Stage Design Models and Documents • New York Real Estate Brochure Collection • Greene and Greene Architectural Drawings and Photos • and more … • Plus non-U.S. collections. (No digitized books collections at present.)