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Digital Public Library of America
By chaichin | September 28, 2011
Ever wonder if something similar to the scale and magnitude of European Library may exist in our world? If you have been paying attention to the progress of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project, you may declare with reservation that this can be it for us. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and under the leadership of its Steering Committee, the DPLA project is working its course to build a national digital public library.
According to the DPLA president John Palfrey, the intended content of the project includes books, images, audio/video files, and objects. They hope to launch this free to all and free for all establishment in spring 2013. The platform source code will be made available to libraries free of charge. Libraries can then take the open source codes to develop their own local DPLA instance. For libraries that do not have the IT resources, they can contribute their content to DPLA via an open online tool.
If you or your institution are interested in getting involved with the project, there will be a plenary meeting on October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC. to get you started.
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