Press: “More on the Digital Public Library of America”

By DPLA, May 25, 2011.

“I’m continuing to get up to speed on this project.  One thing keeps rattling around my head as I read Nate Hill’s post and a later post at readingreality.net. I read an interesting article while researching digital stewardship–I wish I could pull up the citation to give proper attribution but I haven’t been able to find it again–which posited that the shift into digital will redefine the barriers between libraries, museums, and archives.  Essentially, the thought is that the front-end of a digital collection no longer needs to be intrinsically tied to the back-end.  Archives can select, acquire, and preserve objects, while libraries/museums can handle discovery and access, creating overlapping, dynamic collections that pull objects from archives.

“Is the DPLA intended to be a front-end or a back-end? ”

From Evolving Libraries, “More on the Digital Public Library of America”