Category: Blog
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Interview with Martin Kalfatovic of Digital Collaboration for America’s National Collections
Martin Kalfatovic speaks about the Digital Collaboration for America’s National Collections Beta Sprint submission.
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Interview with Tito Sierra and Jason Ronallo of the DPLA Collection Achievements and Profiles System
DPLA RA Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey interviews Jason Ronallo and Tito Sierra about their featured Beta Sprint submission.
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DPLA Broadcast: New RadioBerkman Podcast!
Check out the most recent RadioBerkman episode on the DPLA!
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A Taxonomy of Everything
A recent blogpost by Dan Brinkley, a leader in the use of linked open data, has been causing quite the stir on the DPLA listserv over the past week.
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Interview with Vassilis Tzouvaras of Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT)
In this interview, Vassilis Tzouvaras discusses Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT), a web-based platform that enables the aggregation of rich and diverse cultural heritage content and metadata.
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Interview with CIC’s John Butler, Beta Sprint participant
John Butler talks about his team’s Beta Sprint project, Government Publications: Enhanced Access and Discovery through Open Linked Data and Crowdsourcing
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Interview with Ben Schmidt and Martin Camacho of Bookworm
Ben Schmidt and Martin Camacho from the Cultural Observatory at Harvard University sat down with me earlier this week to speak about their Beta Sprint project, Bookworm.
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Interview with Jeffrey Schnapp of extraMUROS
Jeffrey Schnapp, faculty director of the metaLAB (at) Harvard, discusses extraMUROS, one of nine Beta Sprint projects selected for presentation at the October 21 plenary meeting.
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Notes from the field: One library science student’s take on the DPLA
From my perspective as a library science student, it seems to me that the DPLA has an opportunity to become a catalyst for a large-scale turn in how we as a society choose to organize and contextualize our collective knowledge online.
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The Authors Guild sues HathiTrust
On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild filed suit against HathiTrust for copyright infringement. This suit is in many ways an expansion of the ongoing negotiations in the Google Books suit (begun in 2005), and the Authors Guild is attempting to keep the libraries in the HathiTrust consortium from digitizing any more copyrighted works, prolonging…