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DPLA Listserv Recap: July 8, 2011
DPLA Update Karen Coyle suggested that it would be productive to develop use cases and scenarios for the DPLA. Nate Hill emphasized the need to keep ideas and cases broad in scope at this point in the process. David Curry … Continue reading
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DPLA in the Media: July 8, 2011
David Curry writes about the larger mission of digital libraries. “However, in the larger sector I argue for here, one perceives that efforts to bridge institution-type silos and the professional traditions supporting them are ‘faltering’ at a time when ‘flourishing’ … Continue reading
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DPLA Listserv Recap: July 1, 2011
Library Linked Data: Maura Marx, Executive Director of Open Knowledge Commons and a Fellow at the Berkman Center, forwarded an email from The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group on Linked Data tech and library data. Karen Coyle, a member … Continue reading
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DPLA in the Media: July 1, 2011
John Palfrey presents an update on the DPLA. “The idea is that we’ll have a DPLA by the spring of 2013. Obviously much stands between here and there in terms of hard work, building consensus, talking to lots of people, … Continue reading
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DPLA in the Media: June 24, 2011
Mike Kelly writes about a new ebook service. “The Freading service will offer library patrons unlimited, simultaneous access to the available titles. There’s no access fee for libraries (although there’s a $150 setup fee for first-time customers of Library Ideas), … Continue reading
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DPLA Listserv Recap: June 24, 2011
Articles/Sprints: Several listserv members have linked to their Betas: David Smith, on behalf of his partners from the UMass Amherst CS department’s Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval and the Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts, sent out his group’s proposal, … Continue reading
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DPLA In The Media: June 17, 2011
Paula J. Hane recaps the current status of the DPLA. “The dream of a national digital public library is inching closer to the planning stage.” From Paula J. Hane’s post Newsbreak “Update on the Digital Public Library of America” Nate … Continue reading
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DPLA Listserv Recap: June 17, 2011
Technology/Preservation Karen Coyle raised the issue of measurement of library services, urging the DPLA to consider implementing measurement capabilities in the site. Wayne Martin presented an outline for the technical aspects of a “one system” library and discussed new methods … Continue reading
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DPLA Listserv Recap: June 10, 2011
DPLA Name/Forking Debate Listserv members continued to debate whether to split the DPLA into separate public and academic/scholarly projects. Sandy Thatcher suggested that different types of libraries are confronted by different sets of legal issues, necessitating different approaches to each. … Continue reading
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DPLA in the Media: June 10, 2011
MacKenzie Smith encourages sharing metadata. “Every library, archive, and museum is sitting on a goldmine of information about our collections that we really, really should share, and make as openly accessible as possible, but we’re worried—there’s a lot of fear … Continue reading
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