Rethinking shared metadata at the

platform levelTerry Reese

Head, Digital Initiatives

The Ohio State University

Potential impacts of national repository efforts like the Digital Public Library of America

http://dp.la

….to meet the challenge of re-envisioning library spaces as a platform for research

http://www.cni.org/topics/learning-spaces/the-library-building-as-research-platform/

100,000 ft view

Evolving the role of the library from just information provider, to that of a key partner throughout the research process

http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/jstor-tool/

Greater reliance on webs of data And the emergence of services developed from their aggregates

Identities

DPLA Map

We are starting to see the end of boutique development, collections, and local metadata schemas in the library space

Standards

if you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together. (http://projecthydra.org/)

http://xkcd.com/927/

50,000 ft view

Libraries as virtual spaces

And promotion of equity of access

Blurring of differences between public/private/academic needs

Libraries are comfortable with silos, let’s own it, and come to terms with it

http://librariesoforegon.org/

http://mwdl.org/

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/search/?q=libraries+without+walls

http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/

30,000 ft view

Large data aggregations and partnerships like the DPLA and Europeana will redefine and change for the better our notions of attribution or licensing of metadata

Information doesn’t want to just be free, it wants to be very promiscuous.

Libraries will largely recognize and adopt crowd-source metadata description for special and unique collections

The institution will continue to become more transparent, as aggregations and linked data create the ability to create exhibits and collections from multiple sources.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/4058784908/in/photostream

http://metadatagames.com/

Why is the DPLA Important

Why is this important?

The content is interesting, but not the most interesting part – what is most interesting is

A large corpus of Metadata released under CC0 license (essentially into the public domain)

Metadata being used as a platform

Potential to build new services

Potential to build new applications

Pushes libraries to think critically about the partners they work with an how those partnerships can have impacts downstream

Potentially, it starts to change the nature of how people interact with the library and it’s metadata.

Questions?