{"id":7570,"date":"2013-04-08T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:50:58","slug":"press-boston-to-get-nations-first-digital-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/04\/08\/press-boston-to-get-nations-first-digital-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: Boston to get nation\u2019s first digital library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A prototype of the Digital Public Library of America will launch at the Boston Public Library April 18<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>and 19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThe DPLA is being created to satisfy a need,\u201d said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University library system. \u201cThis need is widespread and deep. It is the need to make the cultural heritage of this country available to everyone in the country and, in fact, everyone in the world.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DPLA will be the first public, national, online library, and has been developed over the past few years at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Darnton said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><em>An excerpt f<\/em>rom Jordan Pickard&#8217;s article for<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> The Daily Free Press,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/dailyfreepress.com\/2013\/04\/07\/boston-to-get-nations-first-digital-library\/\">Boston to get nation\u2019s first digital library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cThe DPLA is being created to satisfy a need,\u201d said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University library system. \u201cThis need is widespread and deep. It is the need to make the cultural heritage of this country available to everyone in the country and, in fact, everyone in the world.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7570","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\/7570","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\/5324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}