{"id":2079,"date":"2011-10-21T01:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:06:17","slug":"press-the-challenges-of-building-a-digital-public-library-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2011\/10\/21\/press-the-challenges-of-building-a-digital-public-library-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It sometimes feels lately that elements of the publishing and consumer electronics worlds have wanted to hit a big &#8216;reset&#8217; button on that great American project of Andrew Carnegie: the public library. So it\u2019s somewhat reassuring to hear Peter Baldwin, chair of the Arcadia Fund,\u00a0say\u00a0&#8216;What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could\u2014if successful\u2014accomplish for our era.&#8217; The Arcadia Fund, along with the Sloan Foundation, announced $5 million funding today to help the initiative move forward. And\u00a0Europeana, the EU\u2019s cultural heritage Web portal, also announced their\u00a0collaboration\u00a0and promised interoperability between the sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Audrey Watter&#8217;s post on Hack Education, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackeducation.com\/2011\/10\/21\/the-challenges-of-building-a-digital-public-library-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could\u2014if successful\u2014accomplish for our era.&#8221;<\/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-2079","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\/2079","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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}