 Good morning. My name is John Butler and I'm representing the Minnesota Digital Library. I'm joined by my colleagues Carla Urban and Greta Bonaman in the audience and I'm sure several people on the stream back home. So we're very pleased to Participate here. Actually, we are thrilled. We are very grateful to our funders and we're filled with a sense of challenge too in order to Fulfill the promises of being one of the initial service hubs of the DPLA effort. It's it's a wonderful opportunity The Minnesota Digital Library, which I'll just note as MDL from this point forward is a program in state of Minnesota by Minotex Which is our 40 year old state and regional resource sharing network based at the University of Minnesota So we're building on a strong organizational foundation there We are in recent years just supported just gaining support from the state of Minnesota's 25 year old or 25 year promise of A clean water land and legacy amendment funding which the citizens of Minnesota in their infinite Wisdom at the abyss of the recession in 2008 voted a sales tax increase to fund cultural heritage for the long term So that's quite extraordinary We're also supported by a lot of in-kind efforts by the University of Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society St. Cloud State University and so forth and some additional funding from these parent institutions so We are known by a through a couple of interfaces, I would say both web interfaces and service interfaces We do have our aggregation of content and search engine here, which pulls together many many collections called Minnesota Reflections We have chosen to invest in the creation of lots of Educational assets to integrate the work and the materials in the Minnesota Digital Library into educational programming in the state With close binds to K-12 Educational standards, so here's an example of one such learning module A foot in two worlds talking about Indian boarding schools in the early part of the century And we also have sort of an internal professional interface to the library and museum community as well as K-12 teachers that promulgates best practices and standards in digitization metadata creation And also a teacher training with respect to use of the tools that we provide So here's a little bit of the tale of the tape on MDL we're about 150 institutions strong by means of contributions and and you can see we cover all types there This is the figure that I like to talk about when describing MDL you can also see the other figure down there about our Sort of our asset size and we're relatively small but the real Story, I think of our existence over the past eight to ten years has been the Contributor and content recruitment done by a very strong outreach effort throughout the state of Minnesota We have a staff member Marion Rangel who has a full-time job of traveling the state building relationships with Small medium-size and even large content providers and bringing them into the fold Empowering those institutions to do things they probably have never even imagined or certainly did not have the wherewithal to consider doing So this is a very strong part of our story and again We have an expanding range of information types and topical areas covered in Minnesota reflections just to give you a Little bit of a glimpse of the coverage. We have these are our county areas State regional historical societies which we have very strong participation and Our library museums and other organizations So we run the range here from the the Blue Earth County Historical Society to the Hazelden Foundation Minnesota Department of Transportation Minnesota Department of Health the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and so forth so just even by the the litany of Participants you can kind of get the feeling for the range of Cultural depiction that we represent our program areas are Digitization and we do this as a Grottis service to the contributors here in exchange for their participation in metadata creation We provide the online access and we've done a lot of experiments with that in terms of Brokering out our metadata to other search engines experimenting with new tools to broaden that access Mentioned before this very strong K-12 and learning support integration that we value considerably in the state and we're Beginning to think about expanding our infrastructure and this won't primarily be a part of the DPLA effort Towards a statewide digital preservation effort a lot of assets have been created millions of dollars of digital content has been creative and There hasn't really been the wherewithal Among these institutions to pull together the infrastructure and in the expertise needed to Provide good stewardship for it over time and we think this is an ideal thing to move forward in a concentrated Centralized fashion, so we're beginning to to plan our steps there And as I mentioned before we're very active in professional development in education So I wanted to give you a little bit of a sampler like Mary did as well This will be a bit rapid fire but just to give you a taste of Some of the materials that we presently have in our Database and repository which will be making its way into the the larger stew of DPLA and this Presentation part here will kind of give you a sense of not only the topical range, but also the format Format diversity that we covered so we go way back for Minnesota, which is really mid-19th century and forward to depictions of small-time life where this Stereograph of the first locomotive to arrive in this town in central, Minnesota 1880 Another small town depiction here The coloration there is because this is a magic lantern slide the precursors to Kodak transparency slides and this was quite something when when these hit the market Barnum and Bailey 4th of july parade in 1911 small town, Minnesota. I Think was mentioned before as one of our themes moving forward with exhibits would be the CCC we have Lots of these panoramic depictions because there was that many in the workforce and Of course with the tools to allow that zooming and panning so people have identified their relatives over time We have a marvelous collection of cyanotypes documenting the topography the geography the small town River life of the upper Mississippi River Valley In the late 19th century and this is a critical record I think Depicting the the region as well as also as you can see here It's been Produced by the US Army Corps of Engineers as a way to do planning for the river construction the locks and dams and so forth It's just a marvelous marvelous collection And turning to the arts a wonderfully rich collection of theater programs again going back to the early part of the 20th century and Part of our history in Minnesota is our not quite annual creation of ice palaces, but We do we do this they're getting more expensive, but this is the first ice palace in the US Circa 1886 and yeah, so how do you make an ice palace? so we actually go out in the lake and you you have harvesting machines and you cut cubes of ice and you transport them to a flat land and And then when lights come along you can illuminate them and they're really quite marvelous I think we're going to have one again this year. So I hear We've reached out to the religious community and monastic community in Minnesota as well And lots of wonderful artwork that has not seen the has not been shared publicly Certainly not in the way that the web allows us to and again this The viewing tools allow us to really take a look get into the the fibers of this watercolor if you will Now we do have some very special collections here including the a Rare Collection of letters and one poem from the famed American Midwest novelist Sinclair Lewis Where he discusses his career he is writing his social life and these letters are directed to an intimate friend And so it's it's quite special We have begun to expand our collection of Minnesota newspapers Ranging from a very wide timespan and This is an example of one that documents the very strong labor history particular in the 1930s in Minnesota You'll see some others coming up we've worked with a number of State and city offices as well to capture their records Including public health departments Various city departments that were concerned about the urban health So it paints a picture of poverty in Minnesota at various pictures that points in time So these are very moving with their photographic evidence as well as the actual public health data that Is presented in the documents themselves. So this is an embedded image from a report And finally I want to talk about the area in which we'll be moving into for our online exhibit and that is the Looking at native cultures so Here we have One of many many items in our collections that is published in the Dakota language This one is is a marvelous little pamphlet on the carrying of horses It was translated by a Dakota poet and faculty member at the University, Minnesota This pamphlet was created to teach students and I'm going to talk about Who these students are in a minute at the Santy school about the care of horses This school Was instruct instructed Dakota children in the Dakota language So that the hard part of this story is that in the school serve children who came from families who removed to Minnesota from Nebraska after the US Dakota Conflict in 1862 1863 150 years ago In the aftermath of this war the school is founded It was so in 1870 as an academy. Excuse me to train native teachers the school developed a printing press in 1871 and produced many many marvelous materials in the Dakota language and so some of this has been translated It's providing us with an opportunity to collaborate with the with the tribal cultures To do further translation. So this is part of where these collections can take you in terms of Relationship building with the various cultural communities in an area and as Part of that expansion of our newspapers here. We have Two native culture papers one going way back 1871 and one here from the 1990s. So again, this is Important part of the cultural record, but also an important bridge to build with the community In communities in Minnesota, I wanted to mention an additional major project that Sort of a sister project that's done at the University of Minnesota that was funded also by this cultural heritage legacy fund that Has resulted in the development of a a major Ojibwe talking language filled with media objects and audio files of dialect of words moving from both Ojibwe to English and English to Ojibwe You can check that out on the web. It's quite a stunning and useful resource with great prospects for Helping to preserve the Ojibwe language So To me MDL and DPLA is about amplifying the effect in all directions. It will allow us To do more of what we've done. It allows to do some of the things that we've struggled to do It will allow us to not only bring more content on board But use that as a springboard to sharing it more broadly with the world and commingling these resources with The collections of the other service hubs the content hubs and who knows that the the vast expanse of contributors in DPLA's future It is sort of for us the proverbial Tip of the iceberg here, so that's us on the top and and the DPLA potentials on the bottom Although I was thinking maybe icebergs are not a great metaphor in the age of Climate change, but let's go with it Specifically, this is what we intend to do at this point in our early planning with the our DPLA generous funding And and that is to do some of the things that you heard about earlier from both Emily and Mary as well as our colleagues in Utah Minnesota Digital Library is is a fairly small fragment of the digital content known to exist in State of Minnesota and in the region We want to build an aggregation To serve to feed into Of those other collections many of them are major major collections that don't need to play in the MDL space But are willing to share their metadata We would like to harvest that metadata Aggregate it locally as a hub and feed it into DPLA as a much more comprehensive representation of Minnesota culture and its Rich digital her legacy major digitization We are beginning to develop some ideas around Forging new relationships with major other major museums in Minnesota that we have not dealt with before and some of the the recruitment for that participation is underway That's could be a very exciting Potential for us Now here's a new one for us Taking a page out of Mary's work here the community sourced digital documentation We have a number of very interesting communities Immigrant communities in particular in Minnesota. We have one of the largest Somali populations in Minnesota We have had one of the largest among populations in the Twin Cities We haven't done so much work in terms of Documenting that culture we would like to engage the community in documenting their culture with Contributions to the MDL and to the DPLA that is our idea moving forward here and to use the the generous funding to do So we talked a little bit about the online exhibits Our focus will be on the native cultures and I've hopefully have given you a little taste of what is to come there but also to draw upon the content of the other service hubs in creating this exhibit and Like the others we're very excited about the prospects of engaging the community directly with A number of events that showcases not only the work of DPLA the work of MDL But the work that they can bring to bear in terms of contributing assets Doing some of the crowdsourcing work that Mary talked about we have those in mind as well So thank you very very much. Thank you to our funders. It's just We're extremely excited and Very very grateful We have any questions from the audience One or two. I was just curious Because you spoke about between doing it yourself versus outsourcing so Could you speak a little to the cost and the work that you had to do to do it in house versus What it would have cost you to outsource it. I know speed was a factor as well It really depends on the kind of content what we have found is that when we cost it out Paginated materials we could do it just as fast ourselves and cheaper. So we continue to do that in house there's also the Kind of tension between shipping archival materials somewhere out of Kentucky and There is a some pushback to that. We don't want to do that But say with our newspaper Digitization we can send some of those files to a vendor and get them back cheaper than we can do all these processes ourselves We can we have the ability to do it, but it's just cheaper for us to and we we tested that model we Could actually measured the time it took each step and How much we were paying people how you know and It really is cheaper to do part of that but then retain that the metadata the content Pieces of it ourselves so that we have a really good product or we want our quality to be super high and That mix works for us You know, it really depends on your situation if you have the staff if you have the ability to train up people to do this You know, you're better off. I think in many ways to outsource it This is a question for Emily. I'm thinking about The business structure or business model that you're thinking about in your relationship with the hubs The service hubs and the content hubs may be too early to talk about but are there some concepts evolving? so Yeah, it's I mean, it's a little early for the content hubs But the idea is that obviously the content hubs have a great deal of content these large repositories and these other Folks are really reaching out to many of these smaller depositories. So really pulling that together You know is certainly the goal having these big pockets of content be able to to work together with the smaller Pockets of content and obviously we see this as Simply a pilot as this is the starting point because we know that these big repositories and these small repositories Have to work together. So this is our really our business model test case if you will with these, you know With both of these size And varieties of content Obviously you saw how many varieties of content formats we have already so I really see this as our kind of our business model Test case to see how this works And then, you know really being able to able to scale up and learning We've talked already just among the service hubs about all that we can learn from each other just the differences and the similarities that we have and Things like white papers that we can produce as part of this process So that you know, we can further this model and move things forward So we spent yesterday talking a lot about how other people Can join there's so many people already reaching out and who have that enthusiasm to be a part of the DP LA and Who aren't necessarily part of either the initial service or content hubs? And we want to think about this model as well as other models for joining The aggregators other kinds of aggregators or or what have you so I think this is this is our starting point And one one business case, but I think there'll be obviously others to come Thank you so much Emily and Mary and John You've given us a taste of what the it of the DP LA will be and I think you can get a sense of the excitement of what We can put together if we work together at a national level in exactly this way and Martin I think your question about business models is a good one I would say that's also still in the wet clay department So if you are a potential service hub or a potential content hub I think you should let Emily or any of us on the team know that you are interested in that And if you are a funder watching either Virtually or here in the room and you would like to support something I think you can see the model that we're pursuing for the DP LA which is of course We need some funding to have a very very lean organization as we have but we really are seeking to push funding out into small and roll libraries to local historical societies to state-level organizations and hopefully in partnership what we can do is just leverage up all of These efforts on behalf of the country and as chairman Leach said in the service of a foreign affairs as well So I think it's a very exciting moment here for the DP LA before we take our break, which will be between now and 12 I wanted to do one final. Thank you for this round, which is you've you've seen the Wonderful work of Emily and John Marion their teams Which I think literally is the tip of the iceberg for many of the service hubs But also what they have come up with is the direct result of the content and scope work stream and many others Collaborating with them and Rachel Frick where are you Rachel? Rachel has been the leader of this in many many ways particularly as the Co-chair and really the the primary chair of the content scope work work stream So I want to end this session with a really big Thank you to Rachel in particular and to all who have helped to frame out exactly the strategy That we're seeing play out today and we'll see you back here at 12 So please join me in thanking the great team