Category: Contributor Resources

New Jersey DPLA Symposium

The New Jersey DPLA Symposium was held on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Monmouth County library headquarters in Manalapan. For more information about the symposium, please see this article.

Presentations

• Growing DPLA in the Garden State
• Becoming a DPLA Service Hub
• DPLA Aggregation Overview
• DPLA Hub Models
• Building a Digital Library Part 1
• Building a Digital Library Part 2

The DPLA makes resources available via their website to assist potential contributors.

• DPLA Website
• Online Exhibitions
• Rightsstatements.org
• Data Related Policies

The NJ/DE Digital Collective will share digital collection items with the DPLA four times a year; late October, January, April and July.  Items shared will be available in the DPLA the last week of the respective month.  If you are a new partner please contact the NJ/DE Digital Collective two months prior to the ingest month.  If you are an existing partner and would like to make changes to your metadata please contact the NJ/DE Digital Collective a month prior to the ingest month.

The NJ/DE Digital Collective ingests data from our partners, most commonly via OAI-PMH. See Sharing via OAI-PMH for tips about setting up your feed.

If OAI-PMH is not possible for your collection, we do have other options that we are happy to discuss this with you.

Once you share your data it is then normalized and aggregated into a single output, which in turn is harvested by the DPLA. All metadata contributed to the NJ/DE Digital Collective and the DPLA will carry a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). However, the item being described can carry different rights.

The NJ/DE Digital Collective Metadata Guidelines include requirements, recommendations and best practices for preparing your collection’s metadata for participation in the Hub and the DPLA. These guidelines are not meant to be a comprehensive cataloging guide but rather a guide for sharing data for participation in the DPLA. The NJ/DE Digital Collective does not recommend a particular metadata schema, as every organization’s needs are different. However, we do offer crosswalks to MARC, MODS, and Qualified Dublin Core.