{"id":2295,"date":"2011-11-01T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:00","slug":"a-national-digital-public-library-begins-to-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/01\/a-national-digital-public-library-begins-to-take-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-National-Digital-Public\/129534\/?sid=cc&amp;utm_source=cc&amp;utm_medium=en\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo_16186_wide_large.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Public Library of America doesn&#8217;t exist yet, but it&#8217;s closer to becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p>At an energized meeting held here at the National Archives on Friday, representatives from top cultural institutions and public and research libraries expressed robust support for the proposed library, which would create a portal to allow the public to get easy online access to collections held at many different institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Two foundations said they would together give $5-million in grant money to help get it up and running by April 2013. A major European digital library announced it will work with its planned American counterpart to make their technical structures compatible. And nine technology teams showcased online frameworks they built for a &#8220;beta sprint&#8221; contest to develop ideas for the technical framework the library will require.<\/p>\n<p>But organizers and observers made it clear that there&#8217;s still a long way to go before the digital public library goes online, and that its final shape\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand just how public it will really be\u00e2\u20ac\u201dremain up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-National-Digital-Public\/129534\/?sid=cc&amp;utm_source=cc&amp;utm_medium=en\">The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Digital Public Library of America doesn&#8217;t exist yet, but it&#8217;s closer to becoming a reality. At an energized meeting held here at the National Archives on Friday, representatives from top cultural institutions and public and research libraries expressed robust support for the proposed library, which would create a portal to allow the public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/01\/a-national-digital-public-library-begins-to-take-shape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A National Digital Public Library Begins to Take Shape&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[509,510],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-dpl","tag-nationaldigitalpubliclibrary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10093,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}