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The Digital Public Library of America Platform

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings / The Digital Public Library of America Platform

March 30, 2012

David Weinberger
Co-Director, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Harvard University
Paul Deschner
Developer, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Harvard University

The platform for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is being built to make maximally available what libraries and other curatorial institutions know about works, ideas, relationships, usage patterns, and more. This description is broad and general because the DPLA is a loose federation of major institutions (as well as smaller ones) that has not yet come to full agreement about what specifically it wants to present to end users. The group’s charge is to build a metadata server with open APIs that will enable and encourage developers to create applications that cannot be anticipated. The metadata may eventually include records for millions of items and many thousands of collections, all of which do not adhere to established standards. The service becomes more valuable as it is able to present developers with richer and deeper responses that make sense of the jumble of content at which the server points. The problems are large and knotty in every direction.

 

http://dp.la/dev
http://dp.la/dev/wiki
http://dp.la/dev/blog

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Filed Under: CNI Spring 2012 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata
Tagged With: CNI2012spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Thursday, April 12th, 2012

 

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