We received nearly 40 final submissions to our summer 2011 Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA should operate. Submissions ranged widely from theoretical concepts to platforms for visual storytelling to metadata processing systems to visualization tools.
We are grateful to those who participated — government agencies, non-profit organizations, academic research teams, librarians, and inspired individuals — for the tremendous creativity and remarkable effort they contributed to this process, and we are pleased to share their submissions here for public comment.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (or CIC) has been leading a coordinated effort to digitize government documents, and asserts that US federal documents represent a critical and core resource for the DPLA.
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The Bookworm Project explores new means of library data visualization.
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This Beta Sprint project updated a proposal for a wiki citation project (Wikicite) to place citations in context and visualize the network of relationships between works for all cited sources.
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Metadata Interoperability Services (MINT) is a web-based platform that enables the aggregation of rich and diverse cultural heritage content and metadata.
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This submission consists of two parts: a prototype of a discovery system based on some of Index Data’s technologies and a document detailing a vision for the DPLA.
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This project presents a model for how cultural heritage organizations with an existing online presence can maximize the discovery and use of their digital library collections through a minimal amount of centralized coordination facilitated by the DPLA.
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The CLIR-DLF / IMLS DCC Beta Sprint project extends the preexisting Digital Content and Collections Registry as a domestic foundation for curated content, principles, and processes for a DPLA prototype. It serves as a search tool for the DCC’s collection of cultural and scientific heritage resources, presenting unique ways of organizing and presenting materials and metadata.
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The Digital Collaboration demonstrates the ability of three disparate, major national institutions to work together through one unified search tool.
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