All of these new technologies were surely followed closely by representatives from the Digital Public Library of America —an ambitious, massive, collaborative project passionately presented by Harvard’s John Palfrey. Informed by similar projects like Europeana and the Hathi Trust, Mr. Palfrey exhorted the crowd to join in, proclaiming that “we can do better than Google.” The DPLA’s principles of collaboration and open code are also behind the exciting New York Times’ labs Linked Open Data project, as well as the open thesaurus project; it is always inspiring to see open sharing of such tools. Indeed, Ian MacKay praised cultural institutions’ proclivity towards “collaboration, not litigation” during his presentation of the Fugazi Live Series archives, while LeVar Burton extolled both the pleasures of traditional reading and the promise of a digital future. But what else would you expect from someone who was both in Star Trek and Reading Rainbow?

via WebWise 2012 – WNYC.