Creating and Remixing Cultural Heritage OERs: A DPLA Primary Source Set Expansion
Digital Public Library of America, a repository with ~50 million digital items, is no longer creating educational resources out of its items. OER Commons is an open-source platform for creating and promoting educational resources. We aimed to migrate DPLA content to OER Commons. We determined that OER Commons is a usable alternative for DPLA resource sets. Issues such as copyright, link rot, and different organizational structures make the migration more difficult. However, the value of the DPLA items remains and they can be better accessed when uploaded to OER Commons.
Project sponsored by: Washington State Library
Project participants:
Andrew CharltonJones
MLIS
David Kreiss-Tomkins
MLIS