Digital Public Library of America

DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY of AMERICA

Maine Shared Collections Strategy

February 24, 2012

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Knowledge is the common property of mankind.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

• Thomas Jefferson

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The art of printing…diffuses so general a light…that all the window shutters despotism and priestcraft can oppose to keep it out, prove insufficient.

Benjamin Franklin

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE attached to recent electronic edition:

Copy: No text selections can be copied from the book to the clipboard….Lend: This book cannot be lent to someone else.Give: This book cannot be given to someone else.Read aloud: This book cannot be read aloud.

--taken from Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership, FSG 2010

Previous quotes from NYRBlog by Robert Darnton 10/4/10—based on a talk given at the opening of an off-the-record conference at Harvard on Oct 1, 2010 to discuss the possibility of creating a National Digital Library.

DPLA a comprehensive library of digitized works that will be easily accessible to the general public.

DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA

• large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all.

• a ‘distributed system,’….it won’t be one big database, but a system of linked databases scattered all over the United States in a way to make them perfectly compatible….

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The Digital Public Library of America, an organization dedicated to building a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all.

DPLA to make as much of the learning and cultural patrimony of

the United States in the humanities, the sciences, the social sciences, and other areas of knowledge free and accessible …

FIRST OBJECTIVEBegin with works in the Public Domain

(usually those published before 1923)• Library of Congress (committed)

• National Archive (committed)

• Major Research Libraries (some committed)

• Hathi Trust• Internet Archive• Other digitized collections

DPLA Collections Suggested as Possible Candidates for Inclusion in a

Digital Public Library of America

 AmazonARTStorCursor booksEuropeana and/or non‐U.S. public domain collectionsFlickr CommonsGoogle Book SearchHathi TrustHumanities e‐book projectInternet ArchiveJSTORMIT Press (university presses)Mountain West Digital Library

National Digital Newspaper programNYPL Digital GalleryOpening History (UIUC)OverdriveOxford University PressProject Gutenberg (other public domain e‐book sites)Public Library of Science (PLoS)Smithsonian commonsState digital libraries (Texas, California, North Carolina, Massachusetts)State Historical SocietiesUniversity Press e‐book consortium

Already digitized

DPLA Collections Suggested as Possible Candidates for Inclusion in a Digital Public Library of America

Content digitized with federal funding 

a. Cultural organizations Library of Congress� National Archives�

Smithsonian Institution�b. Grant making agencies

Institute of Museum and Library Services� National Endowment for the Humanities�

National Science Federation�

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SECOND OBJECTIVEThe next objective of DPLA is to

digitize the vast bulk of cultural works that are still in copyright — but long out of print.

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Robert Darnton

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University LibraryRobert Darnton completed an AB at Harvard and a doctorate at Oxford. After a short stint as a newspaper reporter, he was a junior fellow at Harvard, then taught history at Princeton until 2007, when he came to Harvard as director of the university library. Of his recent books, the one most likely to interest readers concerned with the DPLA is “The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future.”Photo Copyright © 2010, Brian Smith, Boston

DPLASTEERING COMMITTEE

• Paul Courant Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan

• Robert Darnton Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library

• Carla Hayden Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, Maryland)• Charles Henry President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) • Luis Herrera City Librarian for the City and County of San Francisco• Susan Hildreth Director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services• Brewster Kahle Founder of the Internet Archive• Michael A. Keller Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources

at Stanford University• Carl Malamud President, Public.Resource.Org• Deanna Marcum Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress• Maura Marx Director, DPLA Secretariat; Berkman Center Fellow; Executive Director,

Open Knowledge Commons• Jerome McGann John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia• Dwight McInvaill Director of the Georgetown County Library (South Carolina)• John Palfrey (Chair) Faculty Co-Director at the Berkman Center; Henry N. Ess III Professor of

Law and Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School• Peggy Rudd Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission• Amy E. Ryan President of the Boston Public Library• Doron Weber (Vice Chair) Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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FUNDINGThe Sloan Foundation and Arcadia

Fund $5 million in funding for an intense two-year grassroots process to build a realistic and detailed workplan for a national digital library

ELEMENTS OF THE DPLA

CodeCode is the technical backbone of the

DPLA. Where possible, the DPLA will make use of existing free and open source code; all new code funded by the DPLA will be free and open source.

ELEMENTS OF DPLA

MetadataMetadata is a key part of the DPLA

discovery framework; it describes content and resources in the DPLA, enables users to find them, and connects US holdings to holdings in other countries.

ELEMENTS OF DPLA

ContentThe DPLA will • incorporate all media types and formats • begin with works in the public domain that

have already been digitized and are accessible through other initiatives.

• Further material will be added incrementally starting with orphan works and materials that are in copyright but out-of-print.

• The DPLA will also explore models for digital lending of in-copyright materials.

ELEMENTS OF DPLA

Tools and ServicesThe DPLA will provide a number of tools and

services designed to provide enhanced use of content. There will also be tools to facilitate digitization of and broad public access to content. The DPLA platform will be generative and open to public innovation to facilitate new discovery, encourage new kinds of questions, and enable the creation of new tools and services, including social sharing and networking services, research tools, and as-yet unforeseen applications.

ELEMENTS OF DPLA

CommunityThe DPLA will be designed as a

participatory platform that facilitates the involvement of the public in all aspects of its design, development, deployment, maintenance, and support. The DPLA will actively support the community of users and developers that want to reuse and extend its content, data, and metadata.

WORKSTREAM (Committees) – DPLA

The Audience & Participation workstream will collaborate with each of the other workstreams to ensure that the DPLA effort considers, anticipates, and incorporates, to the extent possible, the current and future needs of the broadest possible user group.

WORKSTREAM – DPLA

The Content & Scope workstream will identify a collection development policy by

confronting questions regarding management of and access to distributed materials, research, and data curation.

will collect data concerning how many books and other materials exist in US libraries and their copyright status, and conduct analyses of already-digitized collections in the US and abroad.

will also work with the Technical Aspects workstream to recommend guidelines on bibliographic data, metadata, interoperability, and international cooperation.

WORKSTREAM – DPLA

The Financial/Business Models workstream will make recommendations for a sustainable business plan. Any effort to greatly increase the scope of public access to digital resources will require partnerships among many entities, public and private, including government institutions, foundations, libraries (public, academic, and special-purpose), and publishers, both for-profit and non-profit.

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The Governance workstream will define a system of decision making and management for the DPLA.

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The Legal Issues workstream will make recommendations regarding how to approach and influence the legal and copyright environment in order to support equitable knowledge distribution in a digital world.

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The Technical Aspects workstream will make decisions regarding technology to be used in the DPLA and will advise development of the DPLA prototype.

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DPLA -- TIMELINE

October 2010 -- meeting at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

December 2010 – Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund Award

May 2011 -- Beta Sprint announced to seek ideas and models that demonstrate how to index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content

TIMELINE -- DPLA

September 2011-- an independent review panel reviewed the beta sprint projects

October 21, 2011 – DPLA Plenary MeetingOctober 21, 2011 -- association between

the DPLA and Europeana announcedApril 27, 2012 -- DPLA WestApril 2013 – Some version of DPLA running

DPLA -- PRO

We believe that a significant amount of cultural heritage content is already published in digital form on the Web, but is largely hidden and poorly discoverable by the general public. In this context, we think that the DPLA initiative is well positioned to act as a catalyst to virtually move large amounts of this content from the invisible Web, to the visible and interoperable Web.

DPLA -- CON

What astounds me is that libraries seem to fail to realize that the realization of a so-called "National Digital Library" would effectively put most libraries out of business and most librarians out of work. If all US works were available online from one central US location, why, exactly, would current library patrons need their local library? Why would they vote to fund it, or contribute money or books to it?

DPLA -- CON

Should the Digital Public Library of America protect public libraries’ franchise and branding by dropping the “Public” from the DPLA’s name? Some say, “Most emphatically.”

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The Digital Public Library of America doesn't exist yet, but it's closer to becoming a reality.