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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a freely accessible public portal to cultural heritage information that contains more than 10 million images (photographs, maps, posters, postcards) textual items (manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers, yearbooks, eBooks), oral histories, sound and video files. Temple University Digital Projects Librarian and DPLA Volunteer Community Representative Doreva Belfiore discusses how the DPLA can help one find cultural and family heritage information to supplement genealogical research.
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- 1. The Digital Public Library of America dp.la Adapted from the Digital Public Library of America / dp.la / @dpla / Doreva Belfiore / DPLA Volunteer Community Representative - Pennsylvania / @dorevabelfiore / 7/16/2015 / Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania / @genealogypa /
- 2. Agenda: ABOUT THE DPLA HOW TO USE THE DPLA STRATEGIES FOR FINDING OTHER RESOURCES Q & A
- 4. http://dp.la
- 5. dp.la is the digital public library of america. a free online library that provides access to millions of books, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and more from libraries, archives, historical societies and museums across the United States.
- 6. here are just a few examples of the 10+ million items accessible through dp.la
- 7. view of balloon ascent, ca. 1860-65 by matthew brady, us war department courtesy national archives and records administration http://dp.la/item/fea1b6c9cc1344f36d162a715755df24
- 8. jewish foster home and orphan asylum, germantown, pa courtesy college of charleston libraries http://dp.la/i4f6ea8a7b1d69c4f557b894c7a947073
- 9. north carolina two-dollar treasury note, 1863 unknown courtesy george mason university and the digital library of georgia http://dp.la/item/5830dcb26e4713dbe66f2242456f266c
- 10. victory girls, ca. 1918 by united war work corp, inc. courtesy north carolina department of cultural resources http://dp.la/item/e4b2745d5966ce4efe899a6828cbd871
- 11. (page 8, detail) adams' synchronolo- gical chart of universal history, 1881 by sebastian c. adams courtesy david rumsey historical map collection http://dp.la/item/62e9877a78bf94ec47f6b96d1115e8d7
- 12. county map of the state of pennsylvania, 1872 by william h. gamble courtesy university of texas at Arlington library http://dp.la/item/f3f1230d930f3a78d320256c7ec1cabd
- 13. draper family genealogy diagram, 1945 courtesy bancroft memorial library http://dp.la/item/368288799c04e5a1a6b47c01bb5d1df8
- 14. miscellaneous audio and video clips available via dp.la by various creators courtesy wgbh, national archives and records administration, mountain west digital library
- 15. miscellaneous texts available via dp.la by various creators courtesy national archives and records administration, mountain west digital library, hathitrust digital library, digital library of georgia
- 16. a portal for discovery a platform to build upon an advocate for a strong public option
- 17. a platform to build upon DPLA Application Programming Interface (API) Free and Open Easy to use Enables the creation of custom tools, mobile apps, & discovery interfaces OpenPics (iOS, Android)
- 18. An advocate for a strong public option K-12 Education Open E-books via First Book Partnership with PBS Video Education Advisory Committee Commitment to Open Access “Getting it Right on Rights” Normalization of digital rights statements a la Europeana digital library
- 19. how to use dp.la Doreva Belfiore – 7/16/2015 – Adapted from the Digital Public Library of America / dp.la / @dpla /
- 20. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 21. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 22. dp.la homepage
- 23. searching the library type in your keyword(s) to begin searching
- 24. search results sorting options items retrieved refine save search
- 27. item detail page
- 28. the full item
- 29. changing and refining search results
- 30. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 31. dp.la accounts
- 32. creating a list
- 33. saving a search
- 34. sharing a public list
- 35. sharing a public list
- 36. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 39. browse by searching * then refining
- 40. Additional search tips Wildcard searches: Use * for any character or characters Obituar* obituary, obituaries Boolean logic operators (CAPITALIZED!): AND to search for multiple items (default) Macaroni AND cheese; peanut butter AND jelly NOT to eliminate an option Peanut butter NOT jelly Quotation marks for exact phrases: “Ocean City”
- 41. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 42. dp.la/map
- 43. zooming in with dp.la/map
- 44. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 45. dp.la/timeline
- 46. view on timeline from item detail
- 47. view on timeline from item detail
- 48. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 49. dp.la/bookshelf
- 53. dp.la/bookshelf source item reader (hathi trust)
- 54. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 56. the golden age of radio in the us
- 57. the golden age of radio in the us
- 58. outline search > lists > browse > map > timeline > bookshelf > exhibitions > apps
- 59. dp.la/apps
- 60. dp.la/apps
- 61. dp.la/apps - dpla bookshelf language visualization
- 63. Strategies for finding additional resources
- 64. dp.la data limits dp.la is a portal that aggregates metadata Not a replacement for Ancestry.com, Family Search, State websites, et. al. Item level - Not folder or collection level as is often seen in archives Does not contain archival finding aids (collection guides) Does not always contain page-level metadata or OCR
- 65. Digging deeper Man digging with shovel on a riverbank, 1933, 1942 Courtesy Civilian Conservation Corps Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History http://dp.la/item/b9266dbacd9e42573823710e0f781b1d
- 66. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 67. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 68. saving and re-using your searches
- 69. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 70. obituary example – no ocr text http://dp.la/item/48b4095361d47cbddb540b3284577fc0
- 71. obituary example – no ocr text
- 72. obituary example – ocr text http://dp.la/item/e217d18cf40a1335c54f8d3bb1c22a6b
- 73. obituary example – ocr text
- 74. obituary example – ocr text
- 75. obituary example – ocr text
- 76. obituary example – ocr text search
- 77. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 80. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 81. Linked data - subject terms
- 82. Linked data - subject terms http://dp.la/item/6c5c2ab328c6e2671ddeb8360845342e
- 83. Linked data - subject terms
- 84. Linked data - subject terms
- 85. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 86. collection hierarchy and context http://dp.la/item/1d7cf1b7c0a186b8913418a2e0fed110
- 87. collection hierarchy and context
- 88. collection hierarchy and context
- 89. collection hierarchy and context
- 90. collection hierarchy and context
- 91. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 92. library catalog record links
- 93. library catalog record links
- 94. library catalog record links
- 95. outline saved searches > ocr text > breadcrumb trails > subject linked data > collection hierarchy and context > library catalog links > finding aids / collection guides
- 96. links to finding aids/collection guides http://dp.la/item/http://dp.la/item/d057e1763a72ced8e77fb1b08fce716a
- 97. links to finding aids/collection guides
- 98. links to finding aids/collection guides
- 99. Questions?
- 100. Thank you! Doreva Belfiore / DPLA Volunteer Community Representative - Pennsylvania / dorevabelfiore@gmail.com / @dorevabelfiore / • Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania • DPLA Community Reps Program • Franky Abbott, DPLA • Kenny Whitebloom, DPLA
Editor's Notes
- Goal: to act as a national digital library that contains the “full range of human expression” from U.S. libraries, archives, and museums and makes it free and openly available to all. The “full range of human expression” in the future might mean more than cultural heritage material—ebooks, data sets, and other kinds of materials. DPLA is free, meaning there is no registration, payment or subscription required to use it. By access we mean that DPLA is a portal that offers users metadata (or records) and content previews (like thumbnails). If a user wants to see a full digital object, they click on it and they are referred back to a hosting institution’s website.
- So what kinds of things can I find in dp.la?
- Images of all types, including historic images
- Postcards of many kinds, and not all are touristy
- Images of objects.
- Posters, advertisements, ephemera and other print media.
- Historical maps
- Local and regional maps
- And even some genealogical resources! “A fan-shaped, illustrated depiction of the ancestry and coats of arms of the Draper Family, the Barrett Family, the Child Family, the Thwing family, the Whiting Family, the Eaton Family, the Dawkin family and the Richards family with Benjamin Helms Bristow Draper at the center. He was born on February 28, 1885, the son of Massachusetts Governor Eben Sumner Draper and Nancy Draper. The diagram lists birth, death and marriage dates as well as sketches and facts about major events.”
- Moving images and sound recordings, including historical footage and oral histories.
- Text, including books, periodicals, newspapers, correspondence, various government documents and records, obituaries, and more.
- We can describe DPLA’s mission in three ways (or in terms of 3 Ps): First, DPLA is a portal that delivers resources through different searching and browsing possibilities. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items.
- Second, DPLA is a platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. With a set of development tools and maximally open data, DPLA can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning and tools for discovery. DPLA has an API that is free and open, easy to use and enables the creation of custom tools, mobile apps and discovery interfaces, some of which I will show you.
- Third, DPLA is an advocate for a strong public option in the twenty-first century. For most of American history, the ability to access materials for free through public libraries has been a central part of our culture, promoting literacy and civic engagement among our citizens. DPLA works to ensure that this critical, open intellectual landscape remains vibrant and broad in the face of increasingly restrictive digital options online. Thus, DPLA seeks to increase the scope and number of openly accessible materials to strengthen the public option that libraries represent in their communities. For example, The DPLA promotes a number of initiatives for open data and open learning. It has a deep interest in K-12 Education, and recently announced new partnerships with First Book to provide e-books to low-income children. They also established partnerships with PBS Video and are developing a special education advisory committee. Thinking about open data, their “Getting it right on rights” project is working to standardize digital object rights statements as much as possible to make them machine readable and actionable to foster reuse, a la Europeana, the European digital library.
- This is the DPLA homepage. From here you can search the library via a standard search box, search the map or timeline, view books on the bookshelf, dive into curated exhibitions on topics of national interest, and browse through a range of apps built on top of DPLA. Let’s start first by getting a feel for how to search…
- To begin your search, simply type in a keyword or keywords. Here I am going to show you a very general search on one keyword: “baseball”…
- This is the search results page. You’ll see that we got over 20,000 results from dozens of different organizations! That’s a LOT of results. Before we refine our search, let’s unpack this screen a bit. Record snippets or “hits” are on the right hand side. This contains a thumbnail of the resource, title, creator, date, and a description where available. Clicking on the title or thumbnail will bring you to the record for that resource, but if you want to go directly to the object itself, click “view object”. It’s important to remember that this will bring you to another website, the hosting institution for the resource. You can sort by relevance, alphabetically A-Z/Z-A, or from newest to oldest/oldest to newest. You can also select how many items to display on the page at one time. Refinements or Facets are on the left-hand side. This allows you to pull out items that are of particular interest to you, based on which refinements you choose. Are you pleased with this particular search? Save it! I’ll explain more about this later.
- Now, let’s narrow down our search a bit. Using the facets in the left hand menus, you can narrow down the results list by: Format Contributing Institution Partner Date range Language Location Subject (as in assigned subject headings) Let’s say we wanted just images about the Brooklyn Dodgers. To do that, we can click “image” in the format pane and then “Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)” in the subject pane.
- And so, with those refinements in place, we’ve narrowed our search down to 104 images about the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Now that we’ve brought up a manageable set of results, let’s go ahead and check out an item. This is the item detail page. It contains the DPLA record and a thumbnail for the item. The record includes all the information the partner has given us as well as some added information, often about time and geographic location. There is often a short description that will help you to decide if you would like to see more of the original item. When you’re ready to see the full digital item – remember, DPLA contains just the records, not the full digital items –click on “View Object” or the URL in the record. This will bring you to the partner site that hosts the item, and may lead you to more useful information about the item, as well as related resources. Let’s click “view object” now…
- When you click the link, the object will load into a new tab of your browser. Since this object is stored at Digital Commonwealth, a DPLA partner, we’ve been brought to the object on their site. This is representative of how you will interact with items in the entire DPLA. Later, I will show you how to dig deeper into partner sites to find additional information that might help you In your research.
- And in case you decide that you are not interested in the Brooklyn Dodgers, but you really want to search for the Philadelphia Phillies, you can click the ‘X” to turn off the Dodgers and then add a refinement for the Phillies. Now you can see 91 results for the Phillies.
- Through the DPLA portal, users can save and share lists of records that they have discovered or specific searches they have performed. Although there is no account required to use DPLA, users might want to create an account for the purpose of selecting and organizing their findings. Click “Sign Up” to create a free account.
- Once you’ve created a DPLA account or logged in, you can access the list interface by clicking on your profile/account. Creating a new folder is as simple as clicking “Add New” under the “Save Items & Lists” tab to the right of “Your Account”. I recommend that you start by creating some lists up front to organize your research. The example here is a list called “Things I Like”.
- To save a search, click the save button and that search will show up in Your Profile under “saved searches”.
- The unlocked padlock means your list is publically shareable. The locked padlock is private.
- You can copy the URL for the list and share it with others.
- But what if you don’t know what you want to search for? Fear not! You can easily browse the DPLA by: Subjects. Partners. Searching “ * ” as a general wildcard search.
- Clicking Partners brings up a list of contributing partners. Clicking subjects brings up a list of results by prevalence or alphabetic sort.
- Searching an asterisk alone (*) will bring up all the records in the library. You can then add refinements to narrow your results.
- Here are some additional tips to help you with your searching: You can use an asterisk to represent any character or characters. So, obituar* will match obituary or obituaries. This will make it easier to refine your searches. You can use the word AND in capitals to search for multiple items. The ‘and’ is also implicit by default. Sometimes using the operator NOT will help you to distinguish words or phrases from others. Using quotation marks for phrases will help increase accuracy.
- DPLA also offers a map interface that allows users to see records organized by location. One very common misconception about the DPLA map is that it organizes records geographically by the institutions they come from; rather, the item’s location represents the place where it comes from or was created. For example, a photograph taken of a place in Phoenix, Arizona but digitized and hosted by the Digital Library of Georgia would appear on this map in Phoenix. This is also very important to remember when you are refining your searches with refinements for ‘Location’. Not all records in DPLA have location information. The dots represent items. You can refine what appears on the map by using the refine pane on the left-hand side.
- Zooming into any point on the map with the +/- buttons produces a refined set of items. Here’s an example of how the map responds to us zooming into the area around Schaefferstown, PA. Clicking on an orange dot brings up an item or a scrollable list of items.
- The DPLA Timeline similarly uses available time information—year, month, day—to chart over time. Using the red slider, a user can capture a particular period of time that will display in the blue section at the bottom. Within this section, they can click on search results for a particular decade or a particular year (indicated by the vertical bars—longer bars have more results). Reminder: Only records with time data are shown through the timeline interface.
- Some item detail pages offer the option of viewing the item on the timeline, like this record, allowing you to see the item in a broader context. Note that not all records have this option; only those items with time information can appear on the timeline.
- Said record on the timeline appears next to other items from that year.
- The DPLA Bookshelf is designed to look like a book stack that visitors can browse using the red arrows. Through Bookshelf, users can see book and periodical results relevant to a search. Like the map and the timeline, Bookshelf shows only a portion of the content related to the search—in this case refined by type. You can narrow your browsing using refinements on the left.
- This is a typical record using the Bookshelf. On the right you see that Bookshelf will also return results for “related images” which allow the user to see image content with similar themes and subjects alongside of books and periodicals.
- Tip: If you want to save a bookshelf book to your lists, open the DPLA object first and then save it.
- Again, if you click “View Object” the original source will open up in your browser, and depending upon the source repository software, you will have additional choices for reading, searching, zooming, and saving items. This book was published in 1863, and is in the public domain, so you have a full view of it.
- If you click “Full View” the book will open up, and you can change the way it is displayed with the controls on the right side. There are other options for downloading and sharing the item, or saving it in a list. This is very typical online view of a book or periodical offered by a DPLA partner, in this case from the Hathi Trust.
- DPLA digital “exhibitions.” are built with DPLA content from multiple institutions around a topic of national significance. Exhibitions offer an opportunity to create juxtapositions between items, use them in narratives, and give them useful context Thus far they come from our partners and from digital curation projects with Masters of Library Science students, and in the future will come from our Gates-funded Public Library Partnerships Project which offers digital skills to public libraries.
- Here’s a screenshot of our most recent exhibition about the Golden Age of Radio, for one example. You can see that the exhibitions are arranged by theme, which each theme containing a number of sub-themes.
- This is an example of a typical exhibition sub-theme. Notice the items on the right-hand side, with the contextual narrative on the left. Other exhibition topics include: Other exhibition topics include: European immigration to the US The Civil War Activism in the US Native American history in the Minnesota area The New Deal The 1918 Influenza Pandemic And many more!
- Technically inclined folks use our open API and open data (or records and thumbnails) to build new apps—for visual discovery, to play well with existing library discovery services or for mobile use. We encourage them to use DPLA data and tools to make something new. For example, the DPLA Search Widget is a simple piece of code that can be added to any website to create a custom DPLA search box there.
- Two examples of apps are: (L) Open Pics - a mobile app that allows you to find DPLA images related to your own location. (R) Serendipomatic - allows you to paste in text to discover related results from DPLA, but also Europeana, Trove, and Digital NZ.
- This visualization lets you browse the bookshelf for books and periodicals in a particular language.
- If you need additional help with using the dp.la, there is a page for tutorials and introductory videos that you can consult.
- DPLA is a portal that aggregates metadata. It is not a replacement for specialized genealogy sites like Ancestry or Family Search. However, it is one tool in your toolkit that might help provide additional resources and background for your research. It is a portal, so it does not store digital objects, but it gathers and presents data about them. This is done on the individual item level and not the collection or aggregate level as you might find in archives and special collections. It does not contain archival finding aids (collections guides) nor does it generally contain page-level metadata or OCR text that would enable large-scale full-text searching. However, there are definitely strategies you can employ to help you use the DPLA to find additional resources for your historical research.
- You can save your searches then re-run them at a later date, adding or subtracting refinements to gather additional data. You can easily see how many results you have and what refinements you used. Also, for any of these strategies I recommend that you use CONTROL + Click to open items in a new browser tab, which will make it easier for you to start following different paths of inquiry.
- Here are 2 different examples of obituaries in the DPLA. Here’s an example of an obituary that I found on the DPLA by searching the term obit* to try to find both the word “obituary”, “obituaries” and “obituary records”.
- Looking at the original source record you see that there is no full-text transcript of the contents, only a short abstract. You have to read the entire clipping to get more information.
- Contrast that with this collection of obituaries from a Montana newspaper.
- Here is the record in the aggregator, the Mountain West Digital Library. To see the full record, you need to open it again in another window by clicking View Resource.
- Here’s the original record, which refers to a binder of obituaries from the paper. Notice that there is a text search button, which signals that full text search is available.
- One the first page of the record, you see a Transcript field that contains OCR (optical character recognition) text from scanning the newspaper.
- If you do a text search in the search box, in this case on the name ‘Lowe”, it will find every instance of the term and highlight the page in color so that you can look at them. Now, not every repository has this feature, but many that support OCR text do. This feature will help you search for specific family or place names and locate them inside a larger volume.
- Here’s an enlargement of what is called a “bread crumb” trail, or series of links that can track you back from a lower level to a higher level within a collection. This is very useful to follow if you want to move up or down in a collection hierarchy. So, Book 2 is part of a series of obituaries from Liberty County.
- Following the bread crumb trail on our record, we come to the collection landing page for the Liberty County Obituaries, which gives us 5 pieces of important information: A contextualizing description of the collection with information about the source material, extent, location and time frame (temporal and spatial coverage) A chance to browse recent additions to see what was last added to the collection An ability to subscribe to an RSS feed with a feed reader to get updates to this collection if new items are added in the future A link to browse the entire collection Another search box that can be used to search within the entire collection, not just the original volume. So re-running that search could bring back many more instances of family and place names. Not all repositories function the same way, but many have these types of bread crumbs for navigation.
- Here is an example of a search that leads from the DPLA to the National Archives and Records Administration. I searched for the subject of “Al Capone”, the famous gangster.
- Here we see the DPLA records for Al Capone’s World War I draft card.
- Here is the original object at the National Archives and Records Administration site. If you are interested in seeing what else NARA has on Capone, you can click on the link to the controlled vocabulary or “official” subject heading term for him…
- Which shows a whole list of material held by NARA on Capone. Some of the items are available online and others are not, which is indicated. Some items may have restricted access as well, but that information is found inside each descriptive record. From here, you can explore many other records and then find out how to request them for access. The same type of search can be done for any other type of NARA record: census, military, federal, etc.
- If you search the dp.la for Coney Island, you can find this item record for a pretty postcard with “glued-on glitter highlights”.
- Digging deeper, if you click on “View Object” you see the original record at the New York Public Library digital collections.
- Clicking on the thumbnail at the bottom, we see that the postcard has a related image – the verso or ‘back’ of the card, which might be of interest to researchers, even if there is no OCR text or manual transcription of the handwritten address.
- Scrolling down, the interface shows that the postcard is part of a sub-collection for Coney Island within a larger collection (Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection).
- By following the collection arrangement hierarchy, I was able to find 70 additional items related to the history of Coney Island which may or many not have been linked into the DPLA. I could continue to travel up the collection if I wanted to see additional items from greater Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. Again, I recommend that when you do this, you hold the control key down when you click on the hierarchical link, so that you open up a new browser tab. It might make it easier to navigate if you go exploring other pages.
- From the postcard, if I click on the link to View this Item in the NYPL Catalog, I see the item’s catalog record. This can also provide me some interesting options. If I continue to follow linked subject headings…
- I get a list of other related books and materials available at the NYPL on the subject of Coney Island. I can add and subtract refinements with the facets on the left side, just like I can at the dp.la.
- If I find an interesting book, I can see title and ISBN numbers to use to search for that book in my own local library catalog, OCLC’s Worldcat, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble or many other catalogs and interfaces. If I click “Browse the Shelf”, I get a pop-up virtual shelf browser where I can browse books electronically in the catalog just like I would if I were in the stacks and browsing or searching for a book by call number.
- And finally, here is an image of former President Gerald R. Ford.
- Here is the original item at the University of Utah digital repository. Notice the link to the Collection Inventory.
- The link brings up a finding aid, or collection guide, that describes the entire collection and provides an inventory of its contents. Not every repository links its finding aids or collection guides to their digital records, so it may take some searching on another webpage to find a finding aid. But if you find it, you can then have much more context with which to decide if you wish to dig deeper and explore a particular physical or digital collection from an archive or special collection. In addition, you may find links to additional collections or subjects of interest that you might wish to explore. This is particularly useful if you are researching a particular geographic area or organization.