October 2011 Plenary: Beta Sprint Presentations, Part I
We received nearly 40 submissions to our summer 2011 Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA should operate. After careful deliberation, the Beta Sprint Review Panel...
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Government Publications – Enhanced Access & Discovery through Open Linked Data & Crowdsourcing Government Publications: Enhanced Access and Discovery through Open Linked Data and Crowdsourcing...
View ArticleOctober 2011 Plenary: Beta Sprint Lightning Round
Bookworm The first of the three Beta Sprint Lightning Round presentations at the October 2011 plenary meeting was Bookworm, a project of the Cultural Observatory at Harvard University, with Ben Schmidt...
View ArticleWhat does the future hold for YesWeScan?
The recent “YesWeScan” open letter and petition to the President called for the development of a national strategy or even a Federal Scanning Commission to undertake the massive task of evaluating the...
View ArticleRequest For Comment: Draft report on technical considerations for large-scale...
Update: The report is currently undergoing revisions based on the comments received (thanks to those of you who took the time to review the report!); a final version will be made available soon. Geneva...
View ArticleOrphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
The Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project recently released a white paper titled “Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces”. This paper is the second in a series leading up to the Orphan...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from DIY Libraries
I found this interesting article by Lane Wilkinson via Twitter this morning that discusses what institutional libraries can learn from DIY “micro” libraries. These tiny libraries have been popping up...
View ArticleDPLA Hackathon Gives Developers First Look at DPLA Platform
The DPLA technical development team and Technical Aspects workstream hosted the first DPLA Hackathon yesterday, bringing together a group of approximately twenty programmers, developers, and hackers to...
View ArticleApril 2012 DPLA Update From John Palfrey
John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee, recently gave a short video update that outlines the current state of the DPLA, provides an overview of some of the work that is currently being...
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