The Digital Public Library of America is one year old! We launched in April, 2013 after a few years of planning and barnstorming the country for ideas, inspiration, and volunteers. While we postponed the launch celebration due to the tragic Marathon bombing that same week just outside the Boston Public Library, the site — at … Read more
My favorite tweet in a long time, courtesy of @electriclit: It’s going to be a good day. The Digital Public Library of America opens at noon: j.mp/15hTf0w // @dpla Today is launch day for the DPLA. Hooray! So many people have worked so very hard in the past two years to get the plan down, … Read more
These are my live-blog notes for the fourth and final full session at the DPLA content and scope working session: 1) The messy issue of rights and permissions for in-copyright works is the biggest issue that the DPLA will face. (We have a workstream set up for legal issues on the wiki.) A variant of … Read more
Here are some quick notes on three take-aways from Session III at the Content and Scope planning meeting of the Digital Public Library of America. 1) Materials that are in copyright will have to be thought about by the DPLA differently (the red zone) from those in the public domain (green) or orphan works and … Read more
My three take-away points/topics from the second session, focusing on characteristics of public domain collections and open business models: 1) We have done a lot of work toward collection-building in a DPLA. We need to learn from the experience of our own projects in the United States and those of others that are underway today. … Read more
Here’s my rough live-blog (while moderating; please excuse briefness) of the key points and problems from session 1 of the Digital Public Library of America working meeting on “Scope and Content” of a possible DPLA, today at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA: 1) We began with a voice from public libraries and one … Read more
The Kernochan Center at Columbia University Law School is hosting its annual symposium today in NYC on the timely issue of collective management of copyright. Non-IP lawyers may be scratching their heads after reading that sentence. What, after all, is collective management of copyright? Daniel Gervais, the opening keynote speaker, starts the conference by answering … Read more