Development of the Missouri Hub: Preparing for Linked Open Data by Contributing to the Digital Public Library of America

摘要

Linked data presents numerous implementation challengesrnin cultural heritage institutions. The Digital Public Libraryrnof America (DPLA) has emerged as a resource for culturalrnheritage institutions to contribute metadata records for theirrndigital assets to a national aggregation platform, one that isrnactively being developed to express contributed metadata asrnlinked data. At present, there is a dearth of literature on thernDPLA, and especially on its hubs. This poster aims to fillrnthat gap by documenting the formation of the MissourirnHub, the DPLA Service Hub for Missouri, as a model forrninstitutions with similar collective goals of exposing andrnenriching their data through the DPLA. Using Rogers’srn(2003) Diffusion of innovations theory, we apply a postimplementationrndescriptive application of Rogers’s modelrnfor the innovation process in an organization to thernformation of the Missouri Hub. The five steps tornimplementation are presented, including the initiation andrndecision process. This poster presents and analyzes onernapproach to adopting and implementing the DPLA, anrninnovation supporting cultural heritage institutions and theirrngoals of exposing and enriching their data. By workingrncollaboratively, the institutions were able to achieve a goalrnthat they could not attain individually.