Seeking additional content

As the team prepares the portal/website for the first round of evaluation by scholars, we are also working on obtaining more publicly available materials to include. The value to the collection contributor should be higher visibility for the collection. We are researching the best ways to expose Aquifer metadata to commercial search services using their rules, rather than expecting them to adapt to our way of doing business. The richer the pool of resources DLF Aquifer offers, the more useful the resource is likely to be to scholars.

DLF Aquifer is currently focused on aggregating collections pertaining to American culture and life by harvesting MODS records using OAI-PMH. The metadata working group has been hard at work creating guidelines, faqs and crosswalks from MARC and EAD to make collection contribution easier. Get more information from the DLF Aquifer wiki in the shared resources area.