[okfn-br] Fwd: [berkmanfriends] Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launches Today

Sexta Abril 19 08:27:58 UTC 2013

Carol,

eu praticamente não tenho tempo de ler tudo o que manda. Será que não seria
o caso de você mandar só para mim e eu post semanalmente no
br.okfn.orgalgo como uma coleção de notícias sobre tudo o que tem
saído sobre
conhecimento livre?

Enviar o notícia com sua opinião porque ela é importante ao grupo também
pode ajudar a fomentar discussão.

O que acham todos?

Tom

2013/4/19 Carolina <carolina.rossini em gmail.com>

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> *From:* Kenny Whitebloom <kwhitebloom em cyber.law.harvard.edu>
> *Date:* April 18, 2013, 12:25:57 PM EDT
> *To:* Berkman Friends <berkmanfriends em eon.law.harvard.edu>
> *Subject:* *[berkmanfriends] Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
> Launches Today*
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> Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launches Today *April 18, 2013*
>
> The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched a beta of its
> discovery portal <http://dp.la/> and open platform today. The portal
> delivers millions of materials found in American archives, libraries,
> museums, and cultural heritage institutions to students, teachers,
> scholars, and the public. Far more than a search engine, the portal
> provides innovative ways to search and scan through its united collection
> of distributed resources. Special features include a dynamic map, a
> timeline that allow users to visually browse by year or decade, and an app
> library that provides access to applications and tools created by external
> developers using DPLA’s open data.
>
> “The wonder and joy of entering an expansive library for the first time is
> truly a special feeling. We are delighted to be able to share this unified,
> open collection with Americans and the world, and can’t wait to see what
> people discover, and what new applications and knowledge will be created,”
> said Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the DPLA.
>
> "Many decades in the visioning, two and a half years in the planning, with
> a small steering committee and an incubation hub at the helm, and featuring
> dozens of great libraries, universities and archives involved in hundreds
> of meetings, workshops, plenary meetings, and hackathons, attracting
> thousands of volunteers backed by millions of foundation and government
> dollars, today the Digital Public Library of America goes live! It's a
> great day for education and progress, as if the Ancient Library of
> Alexandria had met the modern World Wide Web and digitized America for the
> benefit of all," said Doron Weber, Vice Chair of the DPLA Steering
> Committee and Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a
> major, active funder of the project.
>
> The DPLA portal is powered by a rich repository of information, known as
> the DPLA platform, which enables new and transformative uses of America’s
> digitized cultural heritage. With an application programming interface
> (API) and maximally open data, the DPLA can be used by software developers,
> researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools
> for discovery, and engaging apps. The DPLA App Library (dp.la/apps)
> features an initial slate of applications built on top of the platform;
> developers and hobbyists of all skill levels are freely able to make use of
> the data provided via the platform.
>
> "The DPLA launches virtually today, a symbol of what people can accomplish
> through collaboration in a networked era," said John Palfrey, President of
> the Board of Directors of the DPLA.  "The most exciting idea is that we
> cannot begin to imagine the extraordinary things that librarians and their
> many partners can accomplish with this open platform and such
> extraordinarily rich materials, from so many institutions large and small,
> together and at the ready.  We will create new knowledge together and make
> accessible, free to all, information that people need in order to thrive in
> a democracy."
>
>  “The DPLA’s goal is to bring the entire nation’s rich cultural
> collections off the shelves and into the innovative environment of the
> Internet for people to discover, download, remix, reuse and build on in
> ways we haven’t yet begun to imagine,” said Maura Marx, Director of the
> DPLA Secretariat. “Regular users can search in the traditional way using
> the portal, and developers and innovators can build on big chunks of code
> and content using the platform—we’re creating access, not controlling it.”
>
> Led by Cohen, the DPLA aims to expand the realm of openly available
> materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely
> usable and used. To date, the DPLA has partnered with six state and
> regional digital libraries and an equal number of large cultural heritage
> institutions— including the National Archives and Records Administration
> (NARA), the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Public Library, and
> Harvard University—to provide access to millions of unique digital objects.
>
> “Among the 2.4 million records available at launch, you will find gems
> that include daguerreotypes of former Presidents George Washington and
> Abraham Lincoln, images of women marching for the vote in Kentucky, news
> film clips of the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights movement, The Book
> of Hours, an illuminated manuscript from 1514, *Notes on the State of
> Virginia*, written by Thomas Jefferson, and paintings by Winslow Homer,”
> said Emily Gore, DPLA Director for Content.
>
> With its content partners, the DPLA has developed a number of diverse
> virtual exhibitions (dp.la/exhibitions) that tell the stories of people,
> places, and historical events both here in the US and abroad; all are
> available freely via the portal. *A History of Survivance: 19th c. Upper
> Midwest Native American Resources in the DPLA*, developed by the
> Minnesota Digital Library, tells the story of extraordinary cultural
> disruption, change and continuity in Minnesota and the surrounding areas
> during the 19th century through objects of both Native and non-Native
> origin. Other exhibitions include *Boston Sports Temples*, developed by
> Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts), which celebrates the rich histories
> of Boston’s professional stadiums and arenas; and *This Land Is Your
> Land: Parks and Public Spaces*, an exploration of the history, impact,
> and significance of our national parks and protected areas curated by the
> South Carolina Digital Library.
>
> “The project unleashes access to a volume and variety of historical and
> cultural assets through a dynamic, digitized information platform,” said
> Jorge Martinez, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at the Knight
> Foundation. “It offers an invaluable opportunity to reanimate this
> information and further strengthen the roles of libraries as centers for
> engagement—bringing communities together, fostering deeper understanding
> and connecting people with traditional culture—by leveraging the power of
> new technology.”
>
> The DPLA began in October 2010 with a small meeting of representatives
> from foundations, research institutions, cultural organizations,
> government, and libraries who came together to discuss best approaches to
> building a national digital library.  In 2011, the Berkman Center for
> Internet & Society at Harvard University established, with the support of
> Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a two-year planning initiative to guide the
> conceptualization, planning, and development of the DPLA.
>
> Today’s launch is, in large part, the culmination of that effort, marking
> the transition from a two-year planning initiative towards a fully
> realized, standalone 501(c)3 non-profit organization that will continue to
> make the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums freely
> available to the world.
>
> A series of festivities to celebrate the launch, scheduled to occur at the
> Boston Public Library today and tomorrow, were postponed until the fall in
> the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon tragedy, which occurred near the
> storied public library.
>
> “I see the building of a new library as one of the greatest examples of
> what humans can do together to extend the light against the darkness,” said
> Dan Cohen, reflecting on the recent events in a letter to the DPLA
> community<http://dp.la/info/2013/04/16/a-message-from-executive-director-dan-cohen/>.
> “In due time, we will let that light shine through.”
>
> *About the Digital Public Library of America*
> The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of
> America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available
> to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression,
> from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s
> heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this
> crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more
> easily discovered and more widely usable and used.
>
> The DPLA is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Arcadia Fund,
> the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the John S. and James L.
> Knight Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
>
> More information is online at http://dp.la.
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