The Digital Collections Service has focused on training, documentation, research, and community development since its inception in 2016. The Alliance collaborates with Alliance members, peer consortia, and state agencies to advance digital collections in libraries.
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Digital Collections Aggregation
- Digital Collections Working Group (2016-2017)
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Project Group (2021)
- Institutional Repositories (IR) Platform Project Group (2019-2020)
Digital Collections in Primo
- Digital Collections in Primo Project Group (2018)
- Digital Collections Working Group User Testing of Digital Objects in Primo (2017)
Digital Collections in Teaching and Research
- Digital Collections in Teaching and Research Project Group (2017-2018)
- Digital Collections in Teaching and Research Conference (2018)
Digital Preservation
- Digital Preservation Training Assessment Project Group (2025-2026)
- Digital Preservation Working Group (2016)
- Digital Preservation Working Group – Digital Preservation Step by Step (2016)
Dublin Core
Rights Statements in Digital Collections
- Rights Statements documentation
- Rights Statements decision matrix
2016-2021 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) hub pilot
Between 2016 and 2018 the service was supported in part with a grant awarded by the Oregon Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program of the Oregon State Library. During this time, the Alliance piloted a service as a Digital Public Library of America hub. The initial ingest was completed in 2021.
From 2016-2021, the Alliance central office supported a customized OAI-PMH harvesting system. While the system is no longer supported, code is available on Github, and additional legacy documentation is available on request