“During the last two weeks, two major national events exploring the frontiers of e-publishing took place on opposite coasts of the U.S. On October 21, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) held its first Plenary Meeting at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. And on October 26-28, the Books in Browsers conference took place at the headquarters of the Internet Archive in San Francisco.
“The DPLA event was built around the six winners of the DPLA’s beta sprint competition to identify ‘ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc. . . that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content.’ The DPLA also announced a $5 million grant from the Sloan Foundation and the Arcadia Fund to promote ‘an intense two-year grassroots process to build a realistic and detailed workplan for a national digital library, the development of a functional technical prototype, and targeted content digitization efforts.’ Jill Cousins, of Europeana, the European Union’s digital library project, announced a partnership with DPLA focused on coordination between European and US libraries, museums and archives. The agenda of the plenary meeting can be found here. A video of the entire event, as well as a variety of reports about it and documents from it, are available here. The speakers at the event were, not surprisingly given the origins and scope of the DPLA process, largely from the worlds of libraries, archives (analog and digital), and academia.”
From Ben Alpers’ post on U.S. Intellectual History: The Blog of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Historians, Academic Publishers, and the Ongoing Digital Publishing (R)evolution