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This week, we are celebrating a tremendous milestone:
DPLA’s aggregation has reached more than 50 million items!
A decade ago, this Spring, DPLA celebrated its first birthday—and we have added tens of millions of items since that time by growing our network to over 6,000 institutions and nearly filling
out the map with DPLA partner hubs. We want to take a moment to honor the work of DPLA staff, past and present, and all of the contributors at every level of DPLA’s network, for helping us to make these 50 million items more accessible to the public.
As we enter a new phase of the cultural heritage work, we are delighted that the growth shows no sign of slowing down. Stay tuned for a full announcement revealing our 50 millionth item in
the coming days.
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Introduction to Standardized Rights Statements
Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 2p ET
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Curious about standardized rights statements? Standardized rights statements help increase access and reuse of your items. By providing rights in the form of a machine-readable URI, users
can facet on rights in the DPLA interface and open access items can be shared by DPLA to Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn how to apply them to your digital collection?
Join the DPLA Rights Statements Working Group for an introduction to standardized rights statements.
RightsStatements.org statements are a simple, standardized system of labels that more clearly communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public. Adding these labels to your digital collections
will improve usability and access for users. Presenters for this webinar will include members of the DPLA Rights Statements Working Group, many of whom are currently implementing rights statements for the collections they manage. They will share their expertise
and experiences, as well as a wide range of resources for implementation.
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Reconciling Metadata with OpenRefine
Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at 1p ET
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Does your metadata contain values that don’t align with controlled vocabularies commonly used in the GLAM sector? Learn how to reconcile metadata with
OpenRefine, a popular data cleaning tool that can help you with metadata prep for DPLA. The Outreach & Assessment and Metadata Working Groups invite you to join this session, which builds upon February’s Introduction to
OpenRefine presentation. Attendees will:
- Understand the basics of reconciliation with OpenRefine
- See examples of reconciliation with commonly used vocabularies such as the Art & Architecture Thesaurus™
- Get pointers on untangling data, such as removing duplicate values
This meeting will be led by Helen Baer, Digital Projects Librarian at Colorado State University, a member of the Plains to Peaks Collective. No software pre-installation will be required by
participants. Please feel free to reach out to Helen if you have specific use cases or controlled vocabularies you’d like her to focus on at this event.
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Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series
Hosted by the DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group
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On the heels of our highly successful reparative description
workshop series, brought to you by the Metadata and Rights Statements working groups, the Outreach & Assessment
Working Group is proud to announce Resourcefully Assessing: Critical approaches to assessment, an event series focused on various assessment frameworks and tools used in education,
digital collections, and cultural heritage work.
This series will cover topics ranging from assessing quality in Open Education Resources (OERs), to measuring use and re-use of digital objects, to assessing and telling stories impact of
outreach efforts themselves.
- Thurs, June 13: Quality Indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Thurs, July 11: Wikimedia Metrics and Tools
- Thurs, August 8: D-CRAFT Toolkit — assessing use & reuse of digital collections
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Please save the date for our first session on Tuesday, June 13, at 1p ET, when educator Joanna Schimizzi will discuss
quality indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER). She’ll share example resources, rubrics, and templates that support you in finding and evaluating OER, with a focus on primary source sets. Part of the conversation will also focus on student needs and
on the opportunity to customize and localize resources to build robust sets of work.
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Joanna Schimizzi is a Biology teacher in North Carolina and a Professional Learning Specialist with ISKME. While getting
her Master’s in Education from Northeastern University, she became extremely interested in classroom culture and student identity. This led her to work with ISKME and OER Commons to support educators in finding Open Educational Resources (OER), so that resources
can be modified and remixed to include a wider variety of perspectives and experiences. Joanna is mom to two boys and lives with her husband in a little town outside of Charlotte, NC.
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DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
Monday, July 8 at 2p ET
Join us on Monday, July 8, at 2p ET, for our next Open Board + Community Meeting to hear all the latest from DPLA.
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Apply to join the MWG
The DPLA Metadata Working Group (MWG) is issuing a call for new members. This is an opportunity to shape and help further the collaborative work of the DPLA Member Network, share expertise
with and learn from Hub and DPLA colleagues, and help address common needs and challenges.
Anyone who contributes to or works with a hub or is active in the DPLA community is encouraged to apply.
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Time commitment:
The MWG currently meets every two weeks for an hour.
Requirements:
Working group members have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Metadata aggregation and remediation
- Metadata creation and standards for one or more communities of practice (libraries, archives, museums, etc.)
To apply, please send the following to our MWG co-chairs Ashlea Green (gree...@appstate.edu) and Amy Hitchner
(ahit...@coloradovirtuallibrary.org):
- Statement of interest: A few paragraphs addressing your experience and qualifications for the working
group and the role you play in your Hub. Please address the selection criteria above.
- Your CV or resume
Applications are due Friday, July 19, 2024. Terms begin in August and run two years with the possibility of extension.
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Reminder: Network Office Hours
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Every second Tuesday of the month, DPLA will host open Network office hours time with our Director of Community Engagement, Dominic Byrd-McDevitt. This is a chance for informal conversation
or to get questions answered, whether you have big strategy concerns, a technical aggregation issue, or just want to put a face to a name.
We invite anyone who is interested—you could work for a hub, a contributing institution, or just want to learn more about DPLA. No need to pre-register! Simply click
here to join via Zoom, or use these links to add it to your calendar for Google or Outlook.
Our next Office Hours are
Tuesday, June 11 at 2pm ET and
Tuesday, July 9 at 2pm ET. Save the dates!
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Last month, we began a search to select a
vibrant and durable home for our flagship cultural heritage aggregation program. After receiving a number of thoughtful and inspiring responses, we’ve moved to the next phase in this process, evaluating candidates and engaging with our steering committee.
If you would like more information on the process,
read our latest update here or view the recording of last month’s DPLA
Open Board + Community meeting.
We want to again share our gratitude to everyone for being part of this journey with us.
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Practical Approaches to Reparative Description: A Workshop Series
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In Spring 2024, DPLA’s Metadata Working Group and Rights
Statements Working Group produced Practical Approaches to Reparative
Description, a workshop series designed for people working with cultural heritage data looking to deepen their understanding and practice of reparative description. Reparative description focuses on remediating or contextualizing potentially
outdated or harmful language used in descriptive practices, ensuring accuracy and inclusivity (definition derived from Yale’s Reparative
Archival Description).
The Working Groups sincerely thank all of the presenters for sharing their stories and their projects. This series could not have happened without their help.
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April 2024 Open Community + Board Meeting
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IndieLib Kicks Off
In April, DPLA brought together independent publishers and librarians to connect and converse about issues crucial to both communities, yet all too often addressed in isolation instead of collaboration.
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DPLA @ PLA24
At last month’s PLA Conference, DPLA convened a distinguished panel of librarians, whose institutions – from the Brooklyn to Chicago to Las Vegas – all stand in unapologetic support of intellectual freedom and are working tirelessly to
push back against book bans.
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Do you have news you’d like to share in our next newsletter?
Let us know.
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