The Technical Advisory Committee will hold an open call on Tuesday, September 23 at 1:00 PM EDT. The agenda is now available.

The DPLA Board and its Finance Committee each held an open conference call in September 2014. Both of these calls were open to the public.

A cross-posted blogpost from the Imgur.com blog (published on September 8, 2014). Thanks, Imgur, for having us this summer!

The Legal Committee will hold an open call on Wednesday, September 3 at 2:00 PM EDT. Registration info and the call’s agenda are now available.

The DPLA Board of Directors’ Governance Committee will hold a conference call on July 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM Eastern. The call is open to the public.

The third installment of DPLA’s Summer of Archives is all about maps — the quirky, the cool, and the downright beautiful. All images and descriptive text are courtesy the David Rumsey Historic Map Collection.

This is a reminder that our next open committee call will take place on Wednesday, July 2 at 2:00 PM Eastern.

Mark your calendars! We’re pleased to announce that DPLAfest 2015—our second celebration of all-things DPLA—will take place on April 17-18, 2015. The two-day public event, set to coincide with DPLA’s second birthday, will bring together hundreds of people from our large and growing community of librarians, archivists, and museum professionals, developers and technologists, publishers and authors, teachers and students, and members of the public for interactive workshops, hackathons, engaging discussions with community leaders and practitioners, fun events, and so much more.

The Summer of Archives is back! This week, we bring you a collection of colorful summertime postcards from mid-century America. These vintage linen color postcards, printed by Tichnor Brothers Inc. (Boston) and held at the Boston Public Library, are perfect little glimpses into America’s favorite summertime locales circa 1930-1945.

We’re excited to announce that DPLA is officially teaming up with Imgur, the popular online photo-sharing platform, to launch an experiment in their gallery from now until August. We’re calling it the Summer of Archives. The idea is simple: throughout the summer we’re going to pull together some awesome collections of images and gifs using open materials found in DPLA.

The DPLA Board of Directors and its Finance Committee will each hold a conference call in May 2014, both of which are open to the public.

The Legal Committee held an open call on Wednesday, May 7. The agenda and notes from this call are available in this post.

The DPLA Board of Directors will hold a conference call on Monday, April 14 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The call is open to the public.

The DPLA Board of Directors as well as its Governance Committee will each hold a conference call on Monday, March 10 at 3:00 PM Eastern and Wednesday, March 12 at 2:00 PM Eastern, respectively. The call is open to the public.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Friday, February 14 at 3:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.

I just returned from several days in Philadelphia where I attended the American Library Association Midwinter conference. About 7,000 folks attended Midwinter, but that’s nothing compared to ALA Annual, which typically brings upwards of 30,000 people together to think and talk about libraries, open access, privacy, maker spaces, technology, and information provision and consumption. Always fascinating, the Philly conference was no different.

This is a reminder that our next open committee call will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The Content Strategy Committee will lead a discussion on the possibilities, priorities, and opportunities of establishing a multimedia Content or Service Hub.

On January 22, 2014 Tiltfactor Laboratory launched Metadata Games: Mobile, a digital game platform for gathering useful data on image, audio, and moving image artifacts. Metadata Games seeks to increase access to humanities content while contributing to vital records, and further enables archivists, librarians, data scientists and a slew of other people to gather and analyze information for archives in powerful and innovative ways.

The American Library Association’s (ALA) annual Midwinter conference is right around the corner, so we here at the DPLA have pulled together a nifty little schedule of talks, panels, and presentations that feature members our staff, Board, and Committees.

The DPLA Board of Directors held a conference call on Tuesday, January 14 at 1:00 PM Eastern. The call was open to the public.