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8:00 AM: Registration and breakfast
9:00 AM: Welcome (video)
Brief remarks from public and private institutions and funders
- David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
- James A. Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Doron Weber, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Peter Baldwin, UCLA and Arcadia
9:30 AM: Report from Washington (video)
- Moderator: John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee
- Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress
- Susan Hildreth, Institute for Museum and Library Services
- David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
10:15 AM: Break
10:45 AM: Perspectives on the Digital Public Library of America (video)
Speakers from a number of fields, backgrounds, and approaches will share their visions for the DPLA and discuss the potential the DPLA has for their communities
- Moderator: Maureen Sullivan, American Library Association
- John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee
- Peggy Rudd, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
- Amanda French, Center for History and New Media
- Jill Cousins, Europeana
- Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.org
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Beta Sprint Presentations
The creators of six Beta Sprint projects, selected by an independent review panel from among nearly 40 submissions, will present their ideas for the DPLA.
- Digital Collaboration for America’s National Collections (video)
- CLIR-DLF / IMLS DCC Beta Sprint (video)
- extraMUROS (video)
- Government Publications: Enhanced Access and Discovery through Open Linked Data and Crowdsourcing (video)
- Metadata Interoperability Services (video)
- ShelfLife and Library Cloud (video)
These presentations will be followed by a lightning round (video) of demonstrations by three additional projects:
- Bookworm
- DPLA Collection Achievements and Profiles System
- Wikicite—A Universal Citation Platform
3:15 PM: Break
3:45 PM: Activation and Implementation (video)
Each DPLA workstream will briefly present its mission and goals
- Moderator: Robert Darnton, Harvard University Library
- Audience and Participation: Peggy Rudd, Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Content and Scope: Rachel Frick, Director, Digital Library Federation Program
- Financial/Business Models: Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA
- Governance: Susan Hildreth, Director, Institute for Museum & Library Services
- Legal and Policy: Jason Schultz, Associate Director at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law
- Technical Aspects: Martin Kalfatovic, Associate Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
4:45 PM: Closing Discussion
- David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
5:00 PM: Day ends