Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Press: “DPLA Plenary: First, Second Session”
David Weinberger’s liveblogs from the October 21 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC.
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Press: “Digital Public Library of America Plenary Session – Morning & Afternoon”
Erik Mitchell’s thoughts on the October 21 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC.
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Press: “An Infrastructure of Ideas”
NEH Chairman Jim Leach’s speech at the October 2011 Plenary Meeting in Washington DC.
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Press: “The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America”
“What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could—if successful—accomplish for our era.”
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Press: “Meet the New Digital Public Library of America”
What would a new world online be without a new public library?
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Press: “Bridges, Reservoirs and Other Metaphors for a Digital Public Library of America”
What if the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress and public libraries and individuals and local historical groups could all draw from those deep wells, all contribute to that common pool?
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Press: “Aubade: The Soul and Body of a Library”
Amanda French’s speech from the plenary on the soul and body of the library.
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Press: “My Day at DPLA – Part I & II”
This project is going to revolutionize the web for one very simple reason. Metadata.
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Press: “Dividing Collective Licenses”
Collective licenses would permit a group of rightsholders to negotiate uniform licenses for specific types of access to a broad class of works for target audiences, usually for-fee, but not always.
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DPLA Steering Committee Meeting Notes: October 20, 2011
The Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee met briefly today to check in before tomorrow’s plenary meeting.
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