DPLA Secretariat Director Maura Marx gives an overview of the history and vision of the Digital Public Library of America at the DPLA Audience & Participation workshop in Dallas, TX on January 24, 2012.

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Towards a Digital Public
Library of America
Maura Marx
January 2012

4. October 2010 meeting

5. On October 1-2, leaders from research
libraries, foundations, and a variety of cultural
institutions gathered in a workshop at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study to discuss how to work
together toward the creation of a Digital Public Library
of America—that is, an open, distributed network of
comprehensive online resources that would draw on
the nation’s living heritage from
libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order
to educate, inform, and empower everyone in the
current and future generations.

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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 Facebook
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and
Director of the Harvard University Library
Carla Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free
Apple
Library (Baltimore, Maryland)
Charles Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Microsoft
Resources (CLIR)
Luis Herrera, City Librarian for the City and County of San Francisco Barnes and Noble
Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute for Museum and Library
Services BioOne
Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive
Michael A. Keller, Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of
Academic Information Resources at Stanford University
Creative Commons
Carl Malamud, President, Public.Resource.Org
Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the ArtStor
Library of Congress
Maura Marx, Berkman Center Fellow and Executive Director, Open Civic Commons
Knowledge Commons
Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the US Copyright Office
University of Virginia
Dwight McInvaill, Director of the Georgetown County Library
(South Carolina)
The Exploratorium
John Palfrey, Faculty Co-Director at the Berkman Center; Henry N.
Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Library and Balboa Park
Information Resources at Harvard Law School
Peggy Rudd, Executive Director/State Librarian of the Texas State Alexander St. Press
Library and Archives Commission
Amy E. Ryan, President of the Boston Public Library Lyrasis
Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation

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Elements of the DPLA
Code
Metadata
Content
Tools and Services
Community

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Progress to Date

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Workstreams

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Beta Sprint

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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 April 27, 2012 Plenary
 December 2011: Technical
specifications workshop , 25
participants; Cambridge MA

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A Global Vision

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Challenges ahead

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Audience & Participation

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mmarx@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Maura Marx
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
& the Harvard Law School Library