Category Archives: DPLA Listserv Recaps

This was a low volume week on the listserv; we hope you’re enjoying the summer and an excuse to be away from your computers! Karen Coyle linked to Michael Gurstein’s blog post on the data divide. Rebekah Heacock posted notes from a … Continue reading →

This was a low volume week on the listserv; we hope you’re off escaping the heat! Gosia Stergios launched a platform to suggest and vote on names for the DPLA on the website All Our Ideas. John Palfrey solicited nominations … Continue reading →

This was a low volume week on the listserv; we hope you’re enjoying the summer and an excuse to be away from your computers! Jason Schultz posted a job offer for a Digital Library Fellow at Berkeley Law. Join the … Continue reading →

DPLA Update Karen Coyle suggested that it would be productive to develop use cases and scenarios for the DPLA. Nate Hill emphasized the need to keep ideas and cases broad in scope at this point in the process. David Curry … Continue reading →

Library Linked Data: Maura Marx, Executive Director of Open Knowledge Commons and a Fellow at the Berkman Center, forwarded an email from The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group on Linked Data tech and library data. Karen Coyle, a member … Continue reading →

Articles/Sprints: Several listserv members have linked to their Betas: David Smith, on behalf of his partners from the UMass Amherst CS department’s Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval and the Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts, sent out his group’s proposal, … Continue reading →

Technology/Preservation Karen Coyle raised the issue of measurement of library services, urging the DPLA to consider implementing measurement capabilities in the site. Wayne Martin presented an outline for the technical aspects of a “one system” library and discussed new methods … Continue reading →

DPLA Name/Forking Debate Listserv members continued to debate whether to split the DPLA into separate public and academic/scholarly projects.  Sandy Thatcher suggested that different types of libraries are confronted by different sets of legal issues, necessitating different approaches to each. … Continue reading →