DPLA maintains an access portal to digitized cultural heritage objects held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout the United States, and provides bulk and programmatic access to this data. The DPLA Metadata Application Profile version 3 (MAPv3) builds on the Europeana Data Model. As such, our use case is somewhat similar to the EDM and the http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DDB-EDM DDB-EDM] use cases.http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DDB-EDM DDB-EDM] use cases.
We harvest data using several different methods (file transfer, OAI-PMH, site-specific APIs, etc.) and process data in different formats (MODS, MARCXML, qualified and unqualified DC, and site-specific serializations). DPLA augments and normalizes data received from partners (content hubs and service hubs) as an enrichment pipeline that is part of our ingestion process. While MAPv3 builds on EDM, we currently use JSON-LD as our sol