{"id":3830,"date":"2012-04-12T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2012-04-12T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:23:23","slug":"april-2012-dpla-update-from-john-palfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/04\/12\/april-2012-dpla-update-from-john-palfrey\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2012 DPLA Update From John Palfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee, recently gave a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2g16PY7xNUg\">short video update<\/a>\u00a0that outlines the current state of the DPLA, provides an overview of some of the work that is currently being done, and gives some insight into the work that is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"April 2012 update from John Palfrey on the Digital Public Library of America\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2g16PY7xNUg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The DPLA is currently in the middle of a two-year planning phase, moving towards the launch of a full DPLA prototype by April 2013. Around the same time, it will move away from Harvard and the Berkman Center where it is currently based, potentially becoming an independent organization or merging with an existing institution.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what the DPLA is and will be is still being determined. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/workstreams\/\">six workstreams<\/a> have made significant progress in many areas, and their\u00a0recommendations are being given to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/about\/steering-committee\/\">Steering Committee<\/a> for discussion. Over the next several months, the Steering Committee will have a series of conversations where they will address many of the difficult\u00a0questions facing the DPLA and render notional decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, anyone who is interested in contributing or getting involved with the DPLA is encouraged to do so!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe want to be an open and transparent organization that not only allows for broad participation, but also enables people to understand what\u2019s going on even if they\u2019re not participating, if they just want to understand the process as it goes along.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next major meeting is the <a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/get-involved\/events\/dplawest\/\">DPLA West plenary meeting<\/a> that will take place in San Francisco on April 27 at the Internet Archive. The event is free and open to the public; <a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/get-involved\/events\/dplawest\/register\/\">registration<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, John Palfrey gives a short update on the work currently underway within the DPLA effort and efforts yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4505,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,43882,2236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-dpla-updates","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2011\/11\/6286087871_e48c3dcb72_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","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\/4505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":100,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}