Towards a Digital Public Library of America
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Transcript of Towards a Digital Public Library of America
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Towards a Digital Public Library of America
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“...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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Elements of the DPLA
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Progress to Date
+Building Community
300 participants; Washington, DC
Live webcast with satellite viewing events and real-time closed captioning
Beta Sprint and workstream presentations
April 27, 2012 Plenary
Workshops October 2011 Plenary March 2011: Content & Scope
60 participants; Cambridge, MA
May 2011: Global Interoperability and Linked Data 40 participants; Amsterdam
June 2011: Technical Principles 25 participants; Washington, DC
December 2011: Technical specifications workshop , 25 participants; Cambridge MA
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