{"id":7794,"date":"2013-04-18T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2013-04-18T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:15:34","slug":"press-now-with-no-further-ado-we-present-the-digital-public-library-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/04\/18\/press-now-with-no-further-ado-we-present-the-digital-public-library-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: Now, With No Further Ado, We Present&#8230; The Digital Public Library of America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Two-and-a-half years ago, at a meeting in Cambridge, leaders of 42 of America&#8217;s top libraries and research institutions decided that the time had come to build\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">something<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0together. But what was that thing? After a half hour,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/07\/inside-the-quest-to-put-the-worlds-libraries-online\/259967\/\">Robert Darnton told\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0last year<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">, the group was able to agree on a single sentence: &#8220;It&#8217;s a worthy effort, and we are willing to work together toward it.&#8221; The &#8220;it&#8221; in question: a national, digital public library.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that moment was the Digital Public Library of America&#8217;s conception, then today is its birth, with the launch of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/\">DP.LA<\/a>, the effort&#8217;s online home. I asked executive director Dan Cohen about what the DPLA had become in those intervening 20 months, and how he saw its role in American public life going forward. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article by Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/13\/04\/now-with-no-further-ado-we-present-the-digital-public-library-of-america\/274963\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If that moment was the Digital Public Library of America&#8217;s conception, then today is its birth, with the launch of DP.LA, the effort&#8217;s online home. I asked executive director Dan Cohen about what the DPLA had become in those intervening 20 months, and how he saw its role in American public life going forward. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.&#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-7794","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\/7794","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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}