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Creating a Blueprint for Building a National Digital Public Library
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2. John Palfrey
Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law
And Vice Dean for Library and
Information Resources
Harvard University
#ndpl ndpl.lapl.org
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D P
L A
Digital Public Library of America
Presentation at the LA Digital Conference
John Palfrey, Harvard Law School
November 15, 2011
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8. + People and Institutions
Steering Committee Organizations and Institutions
Paul Courant, Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Dean of Libraries at the
University of Michigan
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard
Facebook
University Library
Carla Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, Maryland) Apple
Charles Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Luis Herrera, City Librarian for the City and County of San Francisco
Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services
Microsoft
Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive
Michael A. Keller, Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information
Barnes and Noble
Resources at Stanford University
Carl Malamud, President, Public.Resource.Org
Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress
BioOne
Maura Marx, Berkman Center Fellow and Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons
Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia
Creative Commons
Dwight McInvaill, Director of the Georgetown County Library (South Carolina)
John Palfrey, Faculty Co-Director at the Berkman Center; Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and ArtStor
Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School
Peggy Rudd, Executive Director/State Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission
Civic Commons
Amy E. Ryan, President of the Boston Public Library
Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation US Copyright Office
The Exploratorium
Balboa Park
Alexander St. Press
Lyrasis
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Elements of the DPLA
Code
Metadata
Content
Tools and Services
Community
13. + Building Community
Workshops October 2011 Plenary
March 2011: Content & Scope 300 participants; Washington, DC
60 participants; Cambridge, MA
Live webcast with satellite viewing
May 2011: Global Interoperability events and real-time closed
and Linked Data captioning
40 participants; Amsterdam Beta Sprint and workstream
presentations
June 2011: Technical Principles
25 participants; Washington, DC
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jpalfrey@law.harvard.edu
John Palfrey
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
& the Harvard Law School Library
Editor's Notes
John – this was in your original deck; feel free to kill if it’s no longer relevant
Open Access Matters:- General importance of OA in a digital era- Responsive to changing modes of accessing information- Important for libraries to continue to incorporate many types of materials beyond texts in analog formats: images, audio, video, dataRationale:- Broad public access to information in a digital age on a “free to all”-A future for libraries in a cloud computing world-A “clean slate” project on what a digital library could offer- Competitive situation: many other countries (S. Korea, Norway, Japan) have them, as well as Europeana
Brief sketch of DPLA:Rapidlygaining momentumHeadquartered initially at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard UniversityIdeally a movement in the makingAnecdote: America’s first subscription library began in Philadelphia, if Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is to be believed; how it came together
Harvard-based for now, but will almost certainly spin outJP –how to bring up funders is up to your discretionThree foundations have provided funding (Sloan, Open Society Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities)Future commitment from ArcadiaSeventeen members of Steering Committee: public library directors, university library directors, Library of Congress, National Archives, IMLS, Internet Archive, Law.Gov, moreSmall but growing: 1000+ people on listserv and wikiApproximately 60 workstream co-chairs/conveners: DLF, Smithsonian, public libraries, industry, publishers, tech world, museums, archives, university libraries
Three workshopsGrowing community: over 1000 on listservWiki and alpha website (shown in earlier slide)Launch event: October 20-21 in DCAggressive timeline; will produce prototype by April 2013Next slides:SixworkstreamsBeta Sprint
Six workstreams – photos are of some of co-chairsApproximately 60 people committed to 18-month grassroots efforts to convene wide range of stakeholders for the DPLA effort(Membership in workstreams open to the public)
Beta Sprint Review Panel
The DPLA, like the Internet, can’t work as a local, stand-alone institutionGlobal partnerships are essentialMost likely point of connection: open linked data; draft accord with EuropeanaOpen to collaborations: toward a “Human Knowledge Project” on a global level
John – this was in your original deck; feel free to kill if it’s no longer relevant
