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We’re always looking for people to help make the NJ/DE Digital Collective great. Opportunities include:

Marketing and Outreach Committee

Share the work of the hub with the cultural heritage communities in New Jersey and Delaware. Craft communication to promote the hub and DPLA. Starts Spring 2023.

Advisory Committee

Provide feedback about the work of the hub to the Executive Committee. Help guide hub projects and activities to meet our communities’ needs. Starts January 2023.

Metadata Working Group

Review the hub’s metadata guidelines and help create documentation about metadata for contributors with varying levels of expertise. Starts Summer 2023.

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Copyright Clinic

Friday, December 2
2:00 pm EST

Help people decide how they can use your digital items

Everyone in the NJ/DE cultural heritage community is welcome to participate in our next Copyright Clinic, scheduled for Friday, December 2 at 2:00 pm EST.

The first 45 minutes or so will be a general overview and refresher about copyright, particularly as it applies to digital collections. Paige Morgan, Digital Publishing & Copyright Librarian and Head of Digital Scholarship and Publishing at the University of Delaware, demystifies rights statements to give you a copyright confidence boost.

During the second 45 minutes, will we workshop assessing and assigning rights statements to examples of items from current hub contributors. Improving accuracy of rights statements in your collections helps DPLA users know whether and how they can reuse items they discover. Feel free to bring specific questions or just sit in to learn more!

Register now!

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How we got here

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

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DPLA Resources

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

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Ingest Schedule

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.

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OAI-PMH

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.

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Metadata Guidelines

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.  

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Collection Highlights

Agnes P. Medill Boys’ and Girls’ Liberty Clubs of Delaware Scrapbook (University of Delaware)

This scrapbook contains photographs, news clippings, and information that Agnes P. Medill kept during 1918-1922, when she was employed by the Delaware College Extension Service to organize Boys’ and Girls’ Liberty Clubs in the Delaware public schools. During the 1918 school year, Agnes Medill organized at least fifteen clubs throughout Delaware schools, including Newport, Bridgeville, Stanton, Black Swamp, Redden, Georgetown, Greenwood, Townsend, Welsh Tract, Harrington, Newark, and Wilmington.

Townsend Sewing & Baking Club Achievement Exercise 1920