Digital Public Library of America
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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two-and-a-half years of development.[1]
Overview
The DPLA is a discovery tool, or
The DPLA links service hubs, including twelve major state and regional digital libraries or library collaborations, as well as sixteen content hubs that maintain a one-to-one relationship with DPLA.[6][7]
The Banned Book Club
In July 2023, in response to the considerable number of
Board of directors
In September 2012, an inaugural
Daniel J. Cohen was appointed as the founding Executive Director in March 2013.[13]
History
2012 Project Steering Committee
A steering committee led the planning phase of the DPLA initiative from inception through its launch in 2013. Members of the project's Steering Committee included Harvard University's
Critiques
Critiques of the project during its planning phase included its vagueness, lack of internal cohesion, potentially redundant overlap with similar efforts (such as
Concern that the project would harm funding for traditional public libraries was acknowledged in the statement of Peggy Rudd, a member of the Steering Committee, that "the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies passed a resolution at their May 11, 2011 meeting asking the steering committee to reconsider the name Digital Public Library of America, fearing that the inclusion of the word 'public' would have the unintended consequence of giving local governments the excuse to reduce public library funding".[18]
Projects discussed in planning phase
Participants in the planning phase of the DPLA established a publicly accessible wiki[19] which outlines "workstreams" ("Audience and Participation", "Content and Scope", "Financial/Business Models", "Governance", "Legal Issues," "Technical Aspects") and corresponding listserves. A proposed future project of the DPLA is the idea of the Scannebago, a mobile scanning unit that would travel the United States in order to digitize and curate local historical materials.[20] Harvard University staff, led by project's managing director Maura Marx and principal investigator John Palfrey, coordinated a broad-based team that built the DPLA's digital library platform, which launched on April 18, 2013.[21]
In June 2013, the DPLA announced a partnership with HathiTrust to provide access to the latter's digital materials.[22]
See also
- DigitalNZ
- Europeana
- Internet Public Library
- Miami-Dade Public Library System Digital Collections
- Stanford Digital Library Project
- Trove, the Australian equivalent
- World Digital Library
References
- ^ a b O'Leary, M. (2013). "The digital public library of America opens its doors". Information Today. 30 (7): 20–21.
- ^ G. Kumar and S. Li (May 26, 2011). "Digitizing Knowledge: Harvard-supported Digital Public Library of America looks to share intellectual wealth of top research libraries". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ "Funding and Support". Archived from the original on 12 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ Devin Coldewey (5 April 2012). "Nonprofit "Digital Public Library Of America" To Launch In April 2013". TechCrunch. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ Hane, Paula J. (June 16, 2011). "Update on the Digital Public Library of America". Information Today.
- ^ Howard, Digital Public Library of America: Young but Well Connected
- ^ Digital Public Library of America. "Hubs." Accessed February 28, 2014
- ^ Hauari, Gabe (July 26, 2023). "New app allows you to access books banned in your area: What to know about Banned Book Club". USA Today.
- ^ Bridges, C.A. (July 21, 2023). "Florida book ban surge got you down? Here's how a free app has you covered close to home". The Florida Times-Union.
- ^ Parker, Christopher (July 25, 2023). "Readers Can Now Access Books Banned in Their Area for Free With New App". Smithsonian.
- ^ "Berkman Center for Internet & Society". USA: Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ "Digital Public Library of America Announces New Partnerships, Initiatives, and Milestones". USA: Digital Public Library of America. Archived from the original on 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
- ^ Enis, Matt. "Q&A: Dan Cohen on His Role as the Founding Executive Director of DPLA". The Digital Shift. Library Journal. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ^ "Steering Committee". Digital Public Library of America website. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ David Weinberger (4 January 2012). "Starting on the platform for the Digital Public Library of America". Joho the Blog. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ Nicholas Carr (2012). "The Library of Utopia". Technology Review (May/June). MIT. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Susan Flannery (November 1, 2012). Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Communications Forum. 43:25 minutes in. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
These are not the clientele for the DPLA
- S2CID 62652281.
- ^ "Main Page: Welcome to the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative wiki!". Wikipedia. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
- ^ Brandes, Jordan (12 October 2012). "Looking to the Future of Digital Libraries". American Libraries. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ Digital Public Library of America (March 2012). "Concept Note (as of March, 2012)". Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ "HathiTrust to partner with DPLA". DPLA. June 18, 2013.
Further reading
- Esther Yi (26 July 2012). "Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online". The Atlantic.
- Sydell, Laura (19 August 2013). Combining The Nation's Digitized Libraries, All In One Place (Audio). All Tech Considered. National Public Radio. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- Boekesteijn, Erik (June 9, 2013). TWIL #98: Dan Cohen (Director of the Digital Public Library of America, DPLA) (Video podcast). This Week In Libraries. Delft, Netherlands: Shanachie Media. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
- Brantley, Peter (30 April 2012). "At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape". Publishers Weekly.
- Carr, Nicholas (May–June 2012). "The Library of Utopia". Technology Review. MIT.
- Darnton, Robert (May 22, 2014), "A World Digital Library Is Coming True", New York Review of Books
- Hill, Nate (15 June 2011). "Thoughts from the DPLA meeting in DC". PLA Blog: official blog of the Public Library Association. American Library Association. Archived from the original on 25 March 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- Howard, Jennifer. "Digital Library of America, 7-Month-Old Superaggregator 1 Ambitious Library Venture Makes Cross-Country Connections," Chronicle of Higher Education Dec 9, 2013
- Palfrey, John (November 26, 2012). "Building a Digital Public Library of America". The Digital Shift.
- Rothman, David H. (February 24, 2011). "It's Time for a National Digital-Library System: But it can't serve only elites". The Chronicle Review. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Rothman, David H. (May 23, 2011). "A Point-Counterpoint on the Digital Public Library of America". Library journal.
- Rothman, David H. (June 16, 2011). "Digital Public Library of America - can it live up to its huge potential". LLRX. Archived from the originalon October 20, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-674-72503-4. (mentions DPLA)
- Yelton, Andromeda (April 6, 2012). "My first hackathon; or, gender, status, code, and sitting at the table". andromedayelton.com.
- "Copyright Laws Slow DPLA". The Harvard Crimson. December 7, 2012.
- Palfrey, John (2015). Biblio TECH: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google.
External links
- Official website
- Digital Public Library of America submissions for "beta sprint," 2011 (proposals for software development)
- Flickr. Photo of hackathon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012
- Samuel Klein (2012). "DPLA: Building a national library that anyone can edit". Wikimania 2012. Washington, DC. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! April 25, 2013 New York Review of Books
- THIRTEEN. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- Education Guide to DPLA
- Using DPLA's Primary Source Sets
- The Family Research Guide to DPLA
- The Guide to Lifelong Learning with DPLA
- The Scholarly Research Guide to DPLA
- DPLA Developer Resources