{"id":4816,"date":"2012-07-31T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:16:41","slug":"press-with-new-funding-dpla-sets-sights-on-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2012\/07\/31\/press-with-new-funding-dpla-sets-sights-on-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: &#8220;With New Funding, DPLA Sets Sights on Search&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8217;The first phase of the project was about planning. We brought a lot of people together in meetings and created workstreams that tackled individual areas,&#8217; explained Maura Marx, executive director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgecommons.org\/\">Open Knowledge Commons<\/a>, an affiliate of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/\">Berkman Center for Internet and Society<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/index.html\">Harvard Law School<\/a>\u00a0that is coordinating the DPLA. \u00a0&#8216;So, we had people looking at user [experience], people looking at technology, people looking at content, etc.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, as the project grows, every state would eventually have one of these service hubs to coordinate the creation and dissemination of content in their geographic areas. The pilot program will also designate large, existing digital collections, such as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\">HathiTrust Digital Library<\/a>\u00a0as &#8216;content hubs&#8217; and make their data available through DPLA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As these service and content hubs share data, another goal will be the development of a technological platform that will integrate collections from disparate sources. This is no simple task.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;The big challenge in these kinds of initiatives has always been trying to figure out some way of creating a common metadata description scheme, or of mapping a metadata description scheme in a way that it\u2019s possible to have consistent user experiences,&#8217; Peter Brantley, the director of the Internet Archive\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/bookserver\">Bookserver Project<\/a>\u00a0and DPLA committee member, told\u00a0<em>LJ<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Matt Enis&#8217; article in the<\/em> Library Journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedigitalshift.com\/2012\/07\/digital-libraries\/with-new-funding-dpla-sets-sights-on-search\/\">With New Funding, DPLA Sets Sights on Search<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $1 million to fund the creation of the infrastructure for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) last week, and the organization will now turn its focus toward developing a way to search across the many disparate collections involved with the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","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\/4816","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\/4630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}