Category: Blog
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DPLA West Comes to a Close
Over 300 government leaders, librarians, technologists, students, and others gathered at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA today to innovate, collaborate, and connect across the DPLA effort.
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DPLA West: Liveblog
The DPLAmats, our able team of research assistants, are liveblogging from DPLA West at the Internet Archive today.
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Harvard Releases 12 Million Library Records
The Harvard Library has made 12 million library records available for programmatic access via the DPLA API.
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April 2012 DPLA Update From John Palfrey
In this video, John Palfrey gives a short update on the work currently underway within the DPLA effort and efforts yet to come.
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The Rise of e-reading
A look at the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s report on “The rise of e-reading.”
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DPLA Hackathon Gives Developers First Look at DPLA Platform
A Hackathon held both in Cambridge, MA and virtually encourages developers to explore the functionality of the prototype DPLA platform.
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First steps in DPLA-Europeana virtual exhibition
The DPLA and Europeana team up for a joint virtual exhibition on the migration of Europeans to and from the United States.
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Digital Library Digest: March 24, 2012
This week’s DigLibDig covers Europeana-Pinterest collaboration, streamlining of the Elending process, a British Library’s digitization project, and the ‘life and miracles’ of Rumi.
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What We Can Learn from DIY Libraries
DPLA research assistant Alessandra Morgan weighs in on the lessons DIY libraries hold for the DPLA.
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Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
A new paper from the Berkeley Digital Copyright Project examines prominent approaches to the orphan works problem.