Digital Virginias Dashboard

Digital Virginias

https://digitalvirginias.org/

Wen Ng wenng@vt.edu

Jessica McMillen jessica.mcmillen@mail.wvu.edu

Ann Burns (ingest)
 arb5w@virginia.edu

Perry Roland (ingest)
Pdr4h@virginia.edu

Irina Rogova (ingest)
rogovai@vcu.edu

Jessica McMillen (ingest) jessica.mcmillen@mail.wvu.edu

Wen Nie Ng (ingest)
wenng@vt.ed

Deborah Cornell (William &  Mary), Representative

Jessica Tapia (West Virginia University), Alternate

Digital Virginias is a collective of six primary institutions that share the Hub’s administration, management and operational responsibilities between 9 FTE; with the total shared responsibilities comprising roughly 1.5 FTE.

2018

forthcoming

Digital Virginias Hub consists of six institutions, University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, William & Mary and West Virginia University.   The University of Virginia is the primary conduit to the DPLA and acts as the hub administrator. In the initial year (2018), the remaining institutions act as content providers and outreach with each institutions role expanding in subsequent years to offer metadata, digitization and/or content hosting services to organizations within Virginia and West Virginia.

Digital Virginia service model is developing as the initial 6 institutions establish the hub.  As the Service Hub expands we anticipate offering:

• Metadata--Some network members will support under-resourced institutions though the development of descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata. All metadata will be normalized to DPLA requirements (UVA, WVU ...

• Digitization--Some network members will support under-resourced institutions through digitization of audio-visual materials, printed and handwritten text, artwork, artifacts, and specimens for the purpose of ingest into DPLA. (VCU,  GMU,

• Distributed digital preservation--Archival files and metadata will be submitted into the Academic Preservation Trust repository. (only currently true of UVA and VT)

• Training--Network members will support under-resourced institutions though guidelines and consultations for the development of descriptive metadata (WVU, W&M, UVA)

https://github.com/dplava

N/A

All

Digital Virginias is a dark aggregator that leverages git software, and the hosted GitHub service for metadata  aggregation and delivery. UVA Library is responsible for management and operation of the tech stack and delivery of Dublin Core XML metadata to DPLA.