“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR/DLF a $46,000 planning grant to develop a prototype for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The prototype will be submitted to the DPLA ‘beta sprint,’ which seeks ‘ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, [or] user interfaces . . . that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content.’”
From the Digital Library Federation, “CLIR/DLF Receives Mellon Foundation Funding for Digital Public Library of America Prototype”