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Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:01 AM<br>Subject: [berkmanfriends] Fwd: Digital Public Library of America Announces $5 Million in Funding and Collaboration with Europeana<br>To: <a href="mailto:berkmanfriends@eon.law.harvard.edu">berkmanfriends@eon.law.harvard.edu</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to make sure you'd seen the good news about the Digital Public Library of America project -- we announced $5 million in funding from Sloan/Arcadia and a new partnership with Europeana during our meeting at the National Archives in DC today.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Rebekah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Amar Ashar</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu" target="_blank">ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM<br>Subject: Digital Public Library of America Announces $5 Million in Funding and Collaboration with Europeana<br>To: <a href="mailto:press-report-list@eon.law.harvard.edu" target="_blank">press-report-list@eon.law.harvard.edu</a><br>
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<div lang="x-western"> Good morning, <br>
<br>
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University is pleased to announce two exciting news items about
the Digital Public Library of America: <br>
<br>
<b>[1] Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund Announce Funding for the
Digital Public Library of America</b><br>
The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major
contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in
the form of combined $5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering
Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the
realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make
the cultural and scientific record available to all.<br>
Announcement: <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7158" target="_blank">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7158</a><br>
<br>
<b>[2] Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce
Collaboration</b><br>
Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to
collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s
cultural heritage available to a large part of the world’s
population. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which
will provide access to digital collections from libraries,
museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that
it will design its technical structure in a way to promote
interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a
similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives
of Europe. <br>
Announcement: <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7159" target="_blank">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7159</a><br>
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The full announcements and more information can be found below and
on the Digital Public Library of America's website: <a href="http://dp.la/" target="_blank">http://dp.la/</a><br>
<br>
And, as always, we welcome your feedback.<br>
<br>
Amar Ashar<br>
Berkman Center for Internet & Society<br>
Harvard University<br>
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<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7158" target="_blank"><b>Sloan
Foundation and Arcadia Fund Announce Funding for the Digital
Public Library of America</b></a><br>
<p><strong>Washington, DC</strong>—The Sloan Foundation and
Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined
$5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering Committee is leading
the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale
digital public library that will make the cultural and
scientific record available to all.</p>
<p>Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, and Peter Baldwin, Chair of the Donor Board at the
Arcadia Fund, made the announcement at the DPLA plenary meeting
today in Washington, DC. The funding—split equally between Sloan
and Arcadia—will support an intense two-year grassroots process
to build a realistic and detailed workplan for a national
digital library, the development of a functional technical
prototype, and targeted content digitization efforts. Sloan has
previously committed one million dollars towards the
establishment of a DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center and to
support the legal workstream of the DPLA initiative by
developing solutions to copyright law obstacles facing public
digital library initiatives.</p>
<p>“We are delighted to join with the Arcadia Fund in giving the
DPLA a major boost towards its intensive, two year effort to
create an open, distributed digital public library system,” said
Weber. “This is a grand vision for a network of comprehensive
online resources, tools, and services that will inform, educate,
and empower everyone in the United States and eventually link us
with the rest of the world. But we cannot do it alone and invite
other funders to join us in this historic undertaking.”</p>
<p>"What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA
could—if successful—accomplish for our era,” said Baldwin. “We
are delighted to be part of launching that effort."</p>
<p>“We are excited to begin work on the DPLA as a full‐blown,
hard‐driving initiative that promises to transform the world of
libraries and the way that we meet the information needs of
communities in America,” said John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA
Steering Committee. "We are deeply grateful to the Sloan
Foundation and the Arcadia Fund for their support."</p>
<p>The DPLA is a collaborative effort that relies on inputs from a
diverse range of stakeholders and community members. Those
interested in getting involved can learn more about the project
at <a href="http://dp.la" target="_blank">http://dp.la</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>About the Digital Public Library of America</strong><br>
The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps
toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library
that will make the cultural and scientific record available to
all. This impact-oriented research effort unites leaders from
all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators,
industry, and government to define the vision for a digital
library in service of the American public. The DPLA Secretariat
is located at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University; the Steering Committee comprises library and
foundation leaders across the nation. More information can be
found at <a href="http://dp.la" target="_blank">http://dp.la</a>.</p>
<p><strong>About the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation</strong><br>
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, makes grants
for research and education in science, technology and economic
performance. A major goal of Sloan’s program in digital
information technology and the dissemination of knowledge is to
foster public access to information and knowledge for the
benefit of all. To this end, Sloan has previously supported the
Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, LYRASIS, Wikipedia,
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Boston
Library Consortium, and the Espresso Book Machine. More
information can be found at <a href="http://sloan.org" target="_blank">http://sloan.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>About the Arcadia Fund</strong><br>
Arcadia's mission is to protect endangered culture and nature.
It works to document near extinct languages, protect rare
historical archives, and to preserve ecosystems and environments
threatened with extinction. Arcadia has been heavily involved
with digitization projects as well, in conjunction with Harvard,
UCLA, the Israel National Library and the Hill Foundation. More
information can be found at <a href="http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/</a>.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br>
Rebekah Heacock<br>
Project Coordinator<br>
Berkman Center for Internet & Society<br>
<a href="mailto:rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu" target="_blank">rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu</a><br>
</p>
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<p><a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7159" target="_blank"><b><br>
Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce
Collaboration</b></a><br>
</p>
<p><strong>Washington, DC</strong>—Two major digital library
networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that
will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage
available to a large part of the world’s population. The
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide
access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and
archives in the United States, announced today that it will
design its technical structure in a way to promote
interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a
similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and
archives of Europe. <br>
</p>
<p>Robert Darnton, a DPLA Steering Committee member and University
Librarian at Harvard, said, “The association between the DPLA
and Europeana means that users everywhere will eventually have
access to the combined riches of the two systems at a single
click. The aggregated databases will include many millions of
books, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, images, recordings,
videos, and other materials in many formats.”</p>
<p>Jill Cousins, Executive Director of Europeana, welcomed the
agreement, saying that “Europeana was designed to be open and
interoperable, and to be able to collaborate with the DPLA is a
validation of that aim. By this combined effort on two
continents, Europeana and the DPLA hope to promote the creation
of a global network with partners from around the world.”</p>
<p>Another outcome of this collaboration will be a virtual
exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America. The DPLA
and Europeana will demonstrate the potential of their combined
collections by digitizing and making freely available material
about the journey from the Old World to the New. This pilot
project will include text and images about the experience of the
uprooted as they abandoned their homes to seek a new life
thousands of miles across a treacherous ocean. Letters,
photographs, and official records open up unfamiliar views into
the harsh world inhabited by Europeans from the shtetl
communities of Russia to the peasant villages of Ireland. And
equally vivid testimonies illustrate the culture shock and hard
lot of the immigrants after their arrival. Everyone in the
United States, including Amerindians, descends from immigrants,
and nearly everyone in Europe has some connection with
migration, either within Europe itself or across the ocean. All
will be invited to stroll digitally through this rich
exhibition.</p>
<p><strong>A Statement of Common Principles: DPLA-Europeana</strong></p>
The Digital Public Library of America and Europeana share a common
goal: to make the riches of libraries, museums, and archives
available, free of charge, to everyone in the world. They will be
guided in this mission by the following principles.
<ol>
<li>They will make their systems and data interoperable to the
greatest possible extent.</li>
<li>They will promote open access to the greatest possible
extent through joint existing and new policies concerning
content, data, and metadata.</li>
<li>They will collaborate regularly in developing specific
aspects of their systems, beginning with:
<ul>
<li>an interoperable data model</li>
<li>a shared source code</li>
<li>cooperative collection building.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>About the Digital Public Library of America</strong><br>
The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps
toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library
that will make the cultural and scientific record available to
all. This impact-oriented research effort unites leaders from
all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators,
industry, and government to define the vision for a digital
library in service of the American public. The DPLA Secretariat
is located at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University; the Steering Committee comprises library and
foundation leaders across the nation. More information can be
found at <a href="http://dp.la" target="_blank">http://dp.la</a>.</p>
<p><strong>About Europeana</strong><br>
Europeana brings together the digitized content of Europe’s
galleries, libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual
collections. Currently Europeana gives integrated access to 20
million books, films, paintings, museum objects and archival
documents from some 1500 content providers. The content is drawn
from every European member state and the interface is in 27
European languages. Europeana receives its main funding from the
European Commission. More information can be found at <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/" target="_blank">http://www.europeana.eu/portal/</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br>
Rebekah Heacock<br>
Project Coordinator<br>
Berkman Center for Internet & Society<br>
<a href="mailto:rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu" target="_blank">rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu</a><br>
<br>
Jonathan Purday<br>
Senior Communications Advisor<br>
Europeana<br>
<a href="mailto:jonathan.purday@bl.uk" target="_blank">jonathan.purday@bl.uk</a><br>
</p>
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