From Local Collection to Global Community

LAKE SUPERIOR LIBRARIES SYMPOSIUMJUNE 5, 2015

Recollection Wisconsin and the Digital Public Library of AmericaEmily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS

Recollection Wisconsin provides free access to a growing set of digitized resources from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across Wisconsin.

South Wood County Historical Museum

Recollection Wisconsin also offers standards, guidelines and training to help contributing partners build high-quality, sustainable digital collections.

UW-Madison Archives

Content Partnersrecollectionwisconsin.org/map

May 2015: recollectionwisconsin.org includes…

221,359 historical resources from 219 digital collections

…and more records are added every month.

McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids

“Our assignment is to develop an intriguing aggregator of curious collections, an exciting digital screen door through which people pass on the way to discovering their Wisconsin heritage.” -- creative brief as defined by Dan Saal and Jeff Ganger

Bringing Wisconsin’s collections to a national stage

SERVICE HUBBENEFITS AND IMPACT

1. Broaden the impact and reach of Wisconsin’s libraries and cultural heritage institutions.

2. Enable more Wisconsin libraries and cultural heritage institutions to share and preserve their digital collections.

3. Inspire innovative uses of Wisconsin’s digital content.

4. Ensure that Wisconsin is well-represented on the national map of digital content.

PONDS LAKES OCEAN

PHASE IAPRIL 2015-FEBRUARY 2016

Phase I Goals:

• Establish metadata aggregation infrastructure• Establish workflows for metadata ingest,

remediation and sharing• Establish initial partnerships and governance

structure• Establish communication and outreach plans

PHASE ICONTENT

Approximately 400,000 metadata records representing content from more than 140 libraries, archives, historical societies and museums across the state.

• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

• 182,000 records• UW-Milwaukee

• 110,000 records• Wisconsin Historical Society

• 15,000 records• All Recollection Wisconsin content not included in above

• 94,000 records

219,000181,000

Partner Metadata

OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH

Metadata Aggregator

PHASE I METADATA AGGREGATION

PHASE IMETADATA AGGREGATION

Responsibility of Content Partners:

• Grant permission to share metadata with DPLA through a Creative Commons Zero declaration/public domain dedication

PHASE ITIMELINEApril-June 2015Governing Board, Steering Committee and Metadata Work Group established.

June 2015Service Hub application submitted to DPLA.

August 2015CC0/public domain metadata dedication confirmed with Content Partners.

August-September 2015Data Exchange Agreement and Ingest Information Form completed.Development of metadata aggregator begins.

September-November 2015Iterative ingest and metadata review with DPLA staff.

January-February 2016Data is publicly available through DPLA.

PHASE I FUNDING

• Nicholas Family Foundation grant

• 2015-2017• LSTA grant (in development)

• 2016• Harvesting and hosting fees from Content Partners

• In-kind contributions from Governing Partners

LESSONS LEARNED

1) Patience – big, collaborative projects move slowly

2) Start with documents – provide something for stakeholders to respond to

3) Hubs are excited to share their work

4) DPLA staff is there to help

Thank You!

Mineral Point Historical Society

Emily Pfotenhauer Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLSemily@wils.org608-616-9756