Author: Vicky Zeamer
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Press: DPLA Midwest Coverage Highlights
PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS BRING FOCUS TO THREE ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT “The first day of meetings were participatory workshops where a wide group of interested parties moved between three topic areas: Content Infrastructure and the Digital Hubs Pilot Program, Technical Development, and The Future of the DPLA. These sessions provided important feedback to the DPLA leadership…
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Press: DPLA: Looking Forward, Interview with Emily Gore
“Shortly after the DPLA Midwest Plenary in October,* DPLA Director for Content Emily Gore spoke with CLIR Issues about the DPLA, its April 2013 launch, and what’s next. “How do DPLA efforts build on past digital library work? “The whole idea of the DPLA is to take advantage of existing infrastructure to expose content that is already…
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Digital Library Digest: October 30, 2012
Empowering library staff while ensuring the integrity of systems through coding education “Should librarians be learning to how to develop software? This theme has come up in the past few years1 and I think it is a good thing. I once had a boss that told his group “I want you guys to automate yourself out…
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Digital Library Digest: October 23, 2012
This week’s digest discusses the success of the Hathi Trust case, MIT’s Open Access Articles Collection international benefits, a creative way a digital archiving project is calling out to traditional exceptions of archives in its user interface, the Met’s catalog digitization, and some international presentations on how libraries can help the homeless access information.
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Digital Library Digest: October 5, 2012
This week’s digest gives some background and updates on the developing Google intellectual property lawsuit, how California is embracing the benefits of online open source information in relation to textbooks for their public universities, and a crowd sourced digital information project at the University of Illinois.