{"id":8,"date":"2012-01-11T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplatechdev\/?p=8"},"modified":"2012-01-11T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:37:53","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplatechdev\/2012\/01\/11\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello world"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is where the dev core team working on the DPLA<\/a> platform will be blogging. Is blogging.<\/p>\n

Now to explicate that first sentence: The DPLA<\/em> is the Digital Public Library of America. The platform<\/em> will be a set of services to enable developers to build apps and integrations that make use of the metadata being contributed to the DPLA; that metadata will point at and contextualize distributed content and collections. That’s roughly the idea, anyway. One of the main challenges facing the DPLA (and obviously directly affecting the core dev team) \u00a0is figuring out exactly what that means. Finally, the dev core<\/em>\u00a0is the small group of people dedicated to developing the platform, in public and collaboratively. The launch date for the DPLA is April, 2013. Ulp.<\/p>\n

There’s not a lot to see at this dev core site yet. We are right now in the process of putting together the initial set of communication tools, which will include a mailing list, a wiki, an irc channel, and a twitter account. What are we missing?<\/p>\n

The dev core is housed at Harvard, and consists of people from the Berkman Center<\/a>, the Library Innovation Lab<\/a>, the DPLA Secretariat<\/a>, and Pod Consulting<\/a>. This is an interim team, in place until April 27, 2012, when the DPLA meets in plenary session in San Francisco.<\/p>\n