Towards a Cross-Canadian Digital Library Platform

OurDigitalWorld has offered a province-wide digital heritage search portal at OurOntario.ca since 2007, and currently indexes digital objects from over 250 GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) organizations from across Ontario. The British Columbia Library Association's Provincial Digital Library initiative is laying the foundation for a new provincial digital library in British Columbia. As a collaborative effort between the two organizations we have been exploring Supplejack - a metadata ingestion tool created by Digital New Zealand. Using this tool, we have created a prototype for a metadata discovery layer that can easily ingest metadata from a diverse range of institutions, and provide access to that information through search portal that can potentially be deployed at a national, provincial/territorial, or regional level, allowing for fast and efficient collaboration. Our demonstration will walk users through our functional search engine prototype backed by Supplejack, which has been loaded with sample metadata from a variety of organizations in Ontario and British Columbia with diverse metadata schema.