Maintain Ongoing Application Engagements
As of December 2023
Digital Public Library of America/ PA Digital
PA Digital is the Pennsylvania service hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). PA Digital has a "standing order" to harvest all of the metadata sets published to https://digital.sciencehistory.org/oai each quarter. The scheduled harvests are in December, March, June, and September. Digital Collections Librarian should be added to the contributors listserv to receive harvest notifications.
To see metadata as harvested by our OAI/PMH, navigate to any record in the Digital Collections and type “.xml” behind the URL.
PA Digital only harvests metadata, not the assets themselves. Submitted metadata must, however, include a link back to the record on your local site, which allows the DPLA portal to point back to each object in its local context.
Contact info@padigital.org with questions.
Wikimedia Commons Partnership
Through DPLA, our public domain Digital Collections assets are also automatically contributed to Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Science_History_Institute
Contact info@padigital.org with questions.
Digital Scriptorium
A representative from the Digital Scriptorium Project will reach out to the Science History Institute on an annual basis. Newly cataloged manuscript metadata should be shared at this time. DS will require:
MARC-XML file for each manuscript in a zip file. Contact Technical Services Librarian for assistance.
A reminder that our shelfmarks are noted in the 099 field.
a CSV file with the 001 control field numbers and the corresponding online catalog links
Details and metadata for previously shared metadata can be found in P:/Othmer Library/Tech Services/Rare Books and Manuscripts/Digital Scriptorium Metadata
Depending on the size and nature of the dataset, they average between 2-6 weeks turnaround from data contribution to the population in the search interface, which includes several other steps (extraction, enrichment, transformation, etc.).
Contact LP Coladangelo, lcoladan@kent.edu with questions or concerns.