{"id":3411,"date":"2012-03-05T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:10:54","slug":"press-three-cheers-and-two-questions-for-the-dpla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/03\/05\/press-three-cheers-and-two-questions-for-the-dpla\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;Three Cheers and Two Questions for the DPLA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Robert Darnton gave a talk\u00a0<a title=\"Darnton at Dartmouth\" href=\"http:\/\/now.dartmouth.edu\/2012\/02\/cultural-historian-robert-darnton-on-digitizing-dartmouths-treasures\/\" target=\"_blank\">at my institution<\/a>\u00a0last week about the\u00a0Digital Public Library of America\u00a0(DPLA). He presented a progress report, the details of which he has outlined in the\u00a0<a title=\"Darnton on DPLA in NYRB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/nov\/24\/jeffersons-taper-national-digital-library\/?pagination=false\" target=\"_blank\">New York Review of Books<\/a>. The first prototype of the DPLA, using technology developed in the project\u2019s \u201cBeta Sprint\u201d competition, should be released in April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darnton\u2019s inspiration is familiar to most academic librarians: publisher greed has turned the public good of knowledge into a private commodity. Rising subscription prices have created an enclosure movement whereby the knowledge commons has become a gated community. The DPLA is envisioned as a &#8216;mega-meta-macro library&#8217; that would harness the technology of the internet to disseminate and preserve the world\u2019s information for all, and for the ages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From L. Braunstein&#8217;s post on the ACRLog, T<a href=\"http:\/\/acrlog.org\/2012\/03\/05\/three-cheers-and-two-questions-for-the-dpla\/#.T1THSDKF3go.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">hree Cheers and Two Questions for the DPLA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Darnton\u2019s inspiration is familiar to most academic librarians: publisher greed has turned the public good of knowledge into a private commodity&#8230;&#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-3411","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\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}