DPLA Collection Achievements and Profiles System

Names: Tito Sierra, Jason Ronallo, Steven Morris
Affiliation: North Carolina State University Libraries
URL: http://go.ncsu.edu/dplacaps

This project presents a model for how cultural heritage organizations with an existing online presence can maximize the discovery and use of their digital library collections through a minimal amount of centralized coordination facilitated by the DPLA.

The system consists of two basic components:

1. DPLA Collection Profiles provide a mechanism for the DPLA to host an centralized web-based, user-editable directory of collections on the Internet. The collection profiles would be legible to both humans and computers, acting as descriptive metadata as well as sets of technical attributes.

2. DPLA Collection Achievements provide a mechanism for progressively expanding the aforementioned Collection Profile descriptions. Collection Achievements are named entities that represent specialized collection enhancements that can be attached to DPLA Collection Profiles.

The goal of these systems is to enable service providers and developers to build new aggregation and interoperability services based off this shared infrastructure. These services could include search indexing services, visualization tools, instructional tools, promotional tools, analytics services, and recommendation services.