#own_content

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"we are working on a different project" - DP.LA

Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.  TAGS and ANSWERS with Dan Cohen on Heti Attila.

#PARTNERSHIP There are currently about 15 general partners--that is, content and service hubs. Content hubs have considerable materials themselves, and service hubs aggregate content from hundreds of smaller libraries, archives, and museums. When you factor in those institutions, the number of partners runs into the hundreds. We are already in talks with many other potential content and service hubs across the country. 

#OWN CONTENT Not right now. This might be a feature in the future, but we need to come up with a system to handle any crowdsourced process, and right now the DPLA organization is relatively small.  #WORK By this summer there will be six people working at DPLA, with many others contributing skills, knowledge, and other important elements from outside of the organization.  #OPEN DATA Part of the reason we have an API and fully open data is that we cannot fully anticipate what developers will build on top of the DPLA. We hope to be surprised, and undoubtedly will be. Obviously there are some areas that developers will clearly explore--for instance, geolocated history. #EUROPEANA It presents the opportunity to begin to stitch together a global digital library, since we share a data model and are both very interested in seeing what we can do together. Indeed, we launched with a collaborative exhibit on emigration from Europe to the US. #GOOGLE Our hats are off to Google for what they have accomplished with their Google Books program. Clearly we are working on a different project; right now we do have many books but we have also have millions of cultural heritage artifacts that Google does not have. We are looking to build something more comprehensive, more networked (rather than holding the scans ourselves like Google, we point to our partners), and more open.