{"id":205,"date":"2011-08-19T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dpla\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-08-19T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:34:59","slug":"dpla-in-the-media-august-19-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/2011\/08\/19\/dpla-in-the-media-august-19-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"DPLA in the Media: August 19, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The DPLA Steering Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/node\/7003\">announces<\/a> the Beta Sprint Review Panel.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Beta Sprint process is core to the principles of the DPLA,\u201d said John Palfrey, chair of the DPLA Steering Committee. \u201cThis library cannot be built without intensive collaboration and broadly open opportunities for public participation. A project of this size needs as many innovative ideas as it does source materials, and I am confident that the Review Panel will guide the initiative to the most exciting of these ideas and to the most promising next steps.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/node\/7003\">&#8220;Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee Announces the Beta Sprint Review Panel: Panel to be composed of eight leaders in the digital library effort&#8221;<\/a>, Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.org\/en\/art\/401\/\">Michael Santangelo Named to Digital Public Library of America&#8217;s Review Panel<\/a>, Metropolitan New York Library Council<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lis.illinois.edu\/articles\/2011\/08\/palmer-cirss-participate-dpla-beta-sprint-project\">Palmer, CIRSS participate in DPLA beta sprint project<\/a>, Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/beta620.nytimes.com\/projects\/longitude\/metadata-the-longitude-and-short-of-it\/\">launches<\/a> Longitude, a system that leverages linked open data to help visualize the news.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you open Longitude you\u2019ll see a number of \u201cTimes T\u201d pins plotted out in a Google Map. The locations for these pins were all derived from Geonames. Click on any pin and you\u2019ll be presented with a pop-up balloon containing a list of the ten most recent, relevant Times articles. But wait, there\u2019s more! For some locations such as Missouri, your balloon will have one or two additional tabs: \u201cNatives\u201d and\/or \u201cCompanies.\u201d Click on one of these tabs and you\u2019ll be presented with list of locally-born people and locally-headquartered organizations. You can even view Times articles for these people and organizations.<br \/>\n<em>From Evan Sandhaus&#8217;s blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/beta620.nytimes.com\/projects\/longitude\/metadata-the-longitude-and-short-of-it\/\">Leveraging Metadata: The Long(itude) and Short of It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diglib.org\/archives\/1608\/\">Making New York Times Metadata Linked and Open<\/a>, Digital Library Federation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DPLA Steering Committee announces the Beta Sprint Review Panel. \u201cThe Beta Sprint process is core to the principles of the DPLA,\u201d said John Palfrey, chair of the DPLA Steering Committee. \u201cThis library cannot be built without intensive collaboration and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/2011\/08\/19\/dpla-in-the-media-august-19-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dpla-in-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}