{"id":173,"date":"2011-06-13T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dpla\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-09-28T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:45:10","slug":"dpla-listserv-recap-june-10-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/06\/13\/dpla-listserv-recap-june-10-2011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DPLA Listserv Recap: June 10, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>DPLA Name\/Forking Debate<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nListserv members continued to debate whether to split the DPLA into separate public and academic\/scholarly projects. \u00a0<strong>Sandy Thatcher<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00014.html\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a> that  different types of libraries are confronted by different sets of legal  issues, necessitating different approaches to each. \u00a0<strong>David Rothman<\/strong>, an initial proponent of forking the project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00003.html\" target=\"_blank\">continued to advocate<\/a> for  the split, arguing that continuing with a single DPLA would threaten  the franchise and branding of public libraries. \u00a0Other participants  expressed support for maintaining a single DPLA effort and called for an  end to the debate. <strong>Wayne Martin<\/strong> proposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00015.html\" target=\"_blank\">increased<\/a> focus on the hardware underlying the project, whether it consists of two libraries or one.\u00a0\u00a0Multiple  users debated the value of a library\u2019s community function, and the  effect the DPLA would have on public library services like literacy programs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>User Services<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Karen Coyle<\/strong> raised the issue of user services,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00008.html\" target=\"_blank\">cautioning<\/a> against  spending too much time focused on data. \u00a0She emphasized the need to  consider use cases and service design as part of the development  process. \u00a0Multiple listserv members agreed; <strong>Eric Lease Morgan<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00016.html\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> a shift in focus from helping people find information to helping people use that information once they&#8217;ve found it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00020.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Genny Engel<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00022.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brewster Kahle<\/strong><\/a> discussed the possibility of DPLA lending.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Beta Sprint and AllOurIdeas<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Gosia Stergios <\/strong>created <a title=\"www.allourideas.org\/dpla\" href=\"www.allourideas.org\/dpla\" target=\"_blank\">www.allourideas.org\/dpla<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allourideas.org\/dpla\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a site to <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/arc\/dpla-discussion\/2011-06\/msg00034.html\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsource<\/a> ideas from potential DPLA users for what functions the library should have.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Join the DPLA Discussion listserv\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lists\/subscribe\/dpla-discussion\" target=\"_blank\">Join the DPLA Discussion listserv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DPLA name\/forking debate, a discussion of user services, and crowdsourcing ideas for the Beta Sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43881],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dpla-listserv-recaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}