Principle 5: Measure Use and Encourage Reuse

Application Program Interface, and maintains a growing list of apps that provide unique points of discovery for its vast collection of digitized objects.20 To pick just one example of many, web developer and librarian Adam Malantonio created "Historical Cats," a Twitter bot that randomly f...

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Published in:Library technology reports 2016-11, Vol.52 (8), p.42
Main Author: Young, Scott W H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community
Community Relations
Community Study
Focus groups
Goal Orientation
Librarians
Libraries
Library collections
Online Surveys
Social Media
Social networks
Student Motivation
Success
Undergraduate Students
User feedback
Web analytics
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Summary:Application Program Interface, and maintains a growing list of apps that provide unique points of discovery for its vast collection of digitized objects.20 To pick just one example of many, web developer and librarian Adam Malantonio created "Historical Cats," a Twitter bot that randomly finds and tweets an object from the DPLA collection.21 The DPLA also hosts an annual conference, the DPLAfest, that includes a "hackfest" where conference attendees can gather, brainstorm, and build new apps together that reuse DPLA material.22 Furthermore, DPLA representatives travel to across the nation to participate in library conferences and lead hackfests and other collaboration events.23 In this way, the DPLA has become a leader in encouraging reuse. [...]the DPLA is cultivating and promoting a culture of reuse by facilitating new application development at professional conferences.
ISSN:0024-2586
1945-4538