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The PPC is a collaborative project between the Colorado State Library (CSL) and the Wyoming State Library (WSL) with CSL acting as the lead institution.  CSL is responsible for Hub management and administration, technology maintenance, and overall outreach and promotion of Hub activities. CSL works collaboratively with WSL to meet the needs of Wyoming institutions, with WSL promoting the hub within their own state.

The PPC’s Service Hub Model  includes the following types of participation:

• Content Hubs - Partner institutions that provide content as well as support the DPLA participation of other institutions that may not already have the ability to do so on their own.  This Hub participation support may include, but is not limited to, hosting, digitization services, education and/or metadata remediation.
• Community Support Hubs - Organizations that will provide Hub support in such ways as communication, outreach and educational support to the institutions they represent; such as academic libraries or the museum community.
• Content Nodes - Institutions that will only supply content to the Hub. 

Our service model is still developing.  Currently we are offering:

• The permanent Hub staff offer professional development opportunities to the different institution types found across Colorado and Wyoming.  This includes workshops, conference presentations and webinars.
• Onboarding participating institutions to the PPC and the DPLA,  including metadata review, limited remediation, and metadata mapping and aggregation.  No cost to participating institutions.
• Limited collecting and digitization plan consulting. No cost to participating institutions.
• Setup, maintenance, hosting  and training of Omeka CMS for individual CHOs in Colorado. No Cost to participating institutions.

As the Service Hub grows, we foresee the PPC offering :

• The development of a support network where Content Hub partners will support the participation of other organizations by providing them with a variety of services.  These may include one or all of the following; digitization services, digital lab access, educational opportunities related to the creation and maintenance of digital items, Hub metadata standards training, collection development and identification, and hosting.  These might incur fees, as determined by the partner.
• The Community Support Hub partners will provide educational opportunities to the partner types they represent.  They will also provide support to the Co-Wy Service Hub by serving as a centralized communications network and liaison between the Hub and the institutions they represent.