Probably the best third-party article on the Digital Public Library of America appeared in Arts Technica, with the not-so-good title of “The Digital Public Library of America: adding Gravitas to your Internet Search.” In the coming years, the DPLA has a few evident goals: getting contemporary works into the database, working with state and regional… Continue reading Digital Public Library of America: Some announcements and reviews (updated)
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DPLA Launch event canceled but DPLA to go live on Thursday April 18
The Digital Public Library of America‘s launch event, to have taken place at the Boston Public Library where a bomb exploded on Monday during the Boston Marathon, has been canceled. The DPLA will still go live on Thursday April 18. Article here. The DPLA will have a larger event in the fall which will evolve… Continue reading DPLA Launch event canceled but DPLA to go live on Thursday April 18
Dan Cohen Previews the New Digital Public Library of America at NYU
Dan Cohen, the newly named Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America, spoke at NYU’s Humanities Initiative on Thursday, April 4, 2013 about the DPLA. Dan who was closely involved with the development of the scholarly tool Zotero and the exhibition tool for library and museum collections, Omeka. He will be leaving George… Continue reading Dan Cohen Previews the New Digital Public Library of America at NYU
Dan Cohen on open source scholarship
Dan Cohen tries to make the case for “open source” academic publishing on his blog. In part: The dirty little secret about open access publishing is that despite the fact that although you may give up a line in your CV (although not necessarily), your work can be discovered much more easily by other scholars… Continue reading Dan Cohen on open source scholarship