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This version is designed to build on the experience of the Europeana Data Model (EDM). In addition, it incorporates feedback from the DPLA community and digital hub pilot participants to create a balanced framework that allows us to accommodate existing and emerging data models for library, archive, and museum resources.
DPLA MAP V3 is targeted towards exposing contributed metadata via the DPLA API in the April 2013 DPLA public release. We anticipate continuing to evolve this model over time in response to ongoing community input and to extend the functionality provided by DPLA in its API and its public portal.
DPLA has chosen to publish this documentation even as we are beginning work on the formal specification in RDF of the DPLA class and properties. This is, in part, to allow time to gather additional feedback from the community. A preliminary release of the RDF schema is available at http://dp.la/about/schema.