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Towards a Digital Public Library of America

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Martin R. Kalfatovic | 10 December 2015 | Digital Programs Advisory Committee | Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution

Diffusing Knowledge in Partnership with the DPLA

Towards a Digital Public Library of America

A portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in America.

A platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. With an application programming interface (API) and maximally open data, the DPLA can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools for discovery, and engaging apps.

An advocate for a strong public option in the twenty-first century. For most of American history, the ability to access materials for free through public libraries has been a central part of our culture, producing generations of avid readers and a knowledgeable, engaged citizenry.

“...an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in the current and future generations.”

October 2010: The DPLA planning process begins at a meeting in Cambridge, MA. During this meeting, 40 leaders from libraries, archives, museums, foundations, academia, and technology projects agreed to work together

Richard Kurin and Michael Edson represent the Smithsonian

October 2011: Creation of six workstreams and led by a distinguished Steering Committee—helped to scope, design, and construct the DPLA.

April 2013: DPLA launches under the leadership of Dan Cohen

Quick Facts

Metadata in DPLA (including Smithsonian) is CC0

Digital manifestations remain on the contributors' servers and retain all rights as on the contributors' site

DPLA is all about APIs and reuse of the data

Creation of exhibitions, contests, and educational resources

GIF IT UP 2014

Archives of American Art

Anacostia Museum

Anacostia Museum Archives

Cooper Hewitt Museum

Freer-Sackler Archives

Freer-Sackler Museum

Horticulture Artifact Collection

Horticulture Archives of American Gardens

National Air and Space Museum

Air and Space Museum Archives

National Museum of American History

NMAH Archives Center

National Museum of the American Indian

NMNH - Anthropology

NMNH – All other

National Portrait Gallery

National Postal Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian Institution Archives

SIA Field Book Registry

Smithsonian Libraries

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Records

Total Smithsonian Records at launch: 738,092

Criteria for inclusion of Smithsonian Content

- Content is available through Collections search

- Content is owned by the Smithsonian

- Metadata points directly to a resolvable digital object (i.e. no archival finding aids – at this time)

- Smithsonian unit has opted for inclusion into DPLA

Smithsonian was 8.76% of DPLA traffic in FY 2015

3.72% of Collections Search Traffic was referred by DPLA(Dec 2014 – Nov 2015)

Digital Public Library of America >>> Beta Sprint

National Archives | Smithsonian Institution | Library of Congress

1 September 2011

Modeling a Digital Collaboration for America’s National Collections

National Archives | Smithsonian Institution | Library of Congress

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