Press: “Digital Public Library of America Plenary Session – Morning & Afternoon”

By DPLA, October 21, 2011.

“Today I am at the Plenary meting of the Digital Public Library of America. The day-long session is focusing on exploring new collaborative ways in which libraries can contribute to the singular goal of, as one person said ‘the wal-mart of digital libraries.’ The initial announcement of the day was a 5 million dollar grant from the Sloan and Arcadia foundations. This is understandably a significant step forward for the DPLA and marks a chance to grow.

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“The afternoon started with beta-sprint presentations showing off system proof-of-concept applications. CLIR showed a system that aggregated data from publicly supported research projects from IMLS. The beta sprint projects are located at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/ and show off ways of aggregating and sharing metadata, discovery systems and new approaches to indexing. There are some live links to these sites at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Beta_Sprint.”

From Erik Mitchell, Digital Public Library of America Plenary Session – Morning & Afternoon.