{"id":2076,"date":"2011-10-21T00:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:01:47","slug":"press-meet-the-new-digital-public-library-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/10\/21\/press-meet-the-new-digital-public-library-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;Meet the New Digital Public Library of America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The\u00a0Digital Public Library of America, an organization dedicated to building a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all, held its first plenary meeting in Washington DC this morning and\u00a0announced $5 million in funding\u00a0from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund. &#8216;What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could&#8211;if successful&#8211;accomplish for our era,&#8217; Peter Baldwin, Chair of the Donor Board at the Arcadia Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The organization says it is founded on four key elements: open source code, linked meta-data, multi-media content and tools and services. What would a new world online be without a new public library?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Marshall Kirkpatrick&#8217;s article on\u00a0ReadWriteWeb, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/meet_the_new_digital_public_library_of_america.php?utm_source=ReadWriteWeb+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=66d356cdb4-RWWDailyNewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the New Digital Public Library of America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would a new world online be without a new public library?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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\/4454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}