The Authors Guild sues HathiTrust
On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild filed suit against HathiTrust for copyright infringement. This suit is in
Press: “How to Build the Great Online Library”
“The minds behind the Digital Public Library of America are thinking very big. Can they succeed where others have failed?”
Public Conference to Showcase Innovative Ideas for the Digital Public Library of America
Digital Public Library of America planning initiative to hold public plenary meeting in Washington, DC on October 21, 2011
The first Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) conference will bring together government leaders, librarians, technologists, makers, students, and others interested in building a national digital library at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Conference participants will share their visions for the DPLA effort and explore multiple points of entry for public participation in the initiative’s work.
Press: “The Digital Public Library of America”
From Micah Vandegrift: “I’ve been following the development of the DPLA for about a year now, and the conversations surrounding it have been almost as exciting as the idea itself. So what exactly is the idea?”
Press: “The DPLA takes off”
“The DPLA will make our cultural heritage available not to consume, but to parse, sort, analyze, visualize, remix, and redisplay.”
Welcome to the new DPLA website!
Welcome to the new home of the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative! We hope this site will serve as an interactive repository of information, research, and conversations related to the building of a national digital library. Come take a look!
DPLA to bring together workstreams, public, and top Beta Sprinters in DC
On October 21, 2011, the DPLA will hold a plenary session at the National Archives in Washington, D.C that will bring together the project’s major players.
Press: “ShelfLife, LibraryCloud, and DPLA”
From David Weinberger: “Our small team at Harvard , with generous internal support, built ShelfLife and LibraryCloud on top of the integrated catalogs of five libraries, public and university, with a combined count of almost 15 million items, plus circulation data.”
Dead Sea Scrolls Online: Biblical Texts Haven’t Been Viewed on This Many Tablets Since 70 A.D.
To those who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, the idea of an infinitely reproducible copy that could be viewed and manipulated on touch screen tablets powered by electricity would probably have been less easily believed than the miracles described within the texts themselves. Yet, approximately 2,000 years after their creation, and a half century after their discovery, the oldest biblical texts known to man have been digitized and made available online.
Press: “Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain”
DPLA Steering Committee member Robert Darnton speaks with Richard Heffner’s The Open Mind about Google Books and the DPLA.
