Technical Aspects/Questions

Assuming DPLA will be a distributed system, what is the optimal information architecture to ensure interoperability, in the US and globally, with other national libraries?

Interoperability is a requirement that spans technology, information management, and policy, among others. Within this context, what technical aspects of such a system will need to be put in place to ensure interoperability?

Are there relevant technologies in research and development?

Do we have any idea of the magnitude of information to be digitized?

How should the planning group deal with the interaction between elements of intellectual property law and the feasibility of different business models

How will the integrity of the digitized documents be maintained

If Judge Denny Chin does not approve the Google Book Settlement (or is reversed on appeal if he does approve it), what kind of legislation might bring about the socially beneficial aspects of the deal without its many downsides

Should the DPLA even bother adhering to copyright law

Technical Aspects/Questions

To what extent do we envisage parts of the collection as being delivered by federated means, where different repositories and libraries would be responsible for different parts, and to what extent by centralized means

Types of content to include

What additional particular collections or sets of content should be considered

What are the requirements of print backup (if any) for parts of the collection, and who should be responsible for delivering those requirements

What are the two or three most interesting issues or questions that should be confronted in this research track

What mechanisms will be in place for researchers and the public to check to ensure books and scholarly papers are the original documents

What models already exist in other national initiatives with regard to copyrighted and orphan works

What options for private ordering (for instance, academic author dedications of their old books to Creative Commons licenses) might usefully supplement other digital library initiatives

What organizations might serve as models for the governance of a DPLA

What other approaches to governance should be considered

What quality standards should we hold mass-digitization efforts to

What services need to be made available to make the content useful

What types of content should be included

What types of metadata should be collected by a DPLA and what can be done to increase its interoperability

What would it cost, independent of who pays, to digitize how much of what parts of the eventual collection, and what would it cost to deliver that content robustly for the indefinite future

Who is digitizing at scale and what technologies are they using

Within the bounds of existing law, what can libraries do to digitize their collections and make at least some parts of in-copyright works publicly accessible