Are we failing users? Can open approaches meet their needs? Maura's plenary presentation at the Jisc/British Library Discovery Summit 2013 February 2013, London

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JISC
Discovery Summit 2013
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Is open enough?
21-22 February 2013
Are we failing users? Can
open approaches meet their
needs?
Maura Marx

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Statement
 On October 1-2, 2010, leaders from research libraries,
foundations, and a variety of cultural institutions gathered in a
workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to
discuss how to work together toward the creation of a Digital
Public Library of America—that is, an open, distributed
network of comprehensive online resources that would draw
on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities,
archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and
empower everyone in the current and future generations.

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Building Community
Workshops October 2011 Plenary
 March 2011: Content & Scope  300 participants; Washington, DC
 60 participants; Cambridge, MA
 Live webcast with satellite viewing
 May 2011: Global Interoperability events and real-time closed
and Linked Data captioning
 40 participants; Amsterdam  Beta Sprint and workstream
presentations
 June 2011: Technical Principles
 25 participants; Washington, DC April 27, 2012 Plenary
 December 2011: Technical
specifications workshop , 25
participants; Cambridge MA

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DPLA

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Elements of the DPLA
Code
Metadata
Content
Tools and Services
Community

6. Code

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Code
 All code funded by the DPLA will be free and open source.
 All code will be posted to public repositories with version control; regular
releases will be issued; the DPLA will accept patches.
 The DPLA will try to use existing services and code where possible. Free and
open source software is preferred, and the DPLA will move toward a
completely free tool chain.
 Code and services will not accept any intellectual property (such as patents)
that is not licensed royalty-free on a non-discriminatory basis to all users.
 As far as possible, the DPLA platform will be open and accessible for others
to fork/host/replicate with no discrimination based on use or field of
endeavor.
 In order to facilitate and maximize interoperability, the DPLA platform will
support open standards, including Linked Open Data.

8. Metadata

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Metadata
http://dp.la/about/board/february-14-2013-board-of-directors-call/
01. The Vast Majority of Metadata is Not Subject to Copyright
Restrictions. The DPLA believes that the vast majority of metadata is
not subject to copyright
02. The DPLA’s Partners Share the DPLA’s Commitment. DPLA’s
partners are also committed to freely sharable metadata to promote
innovation…and agree …to the extent that metadata provided by the
DPLA’s partners may be protected by copyright, however, those
partners have agreed to dedicate such metadata to the public domain
pursuant to a CC0 license. This means that any raw metadata imported
into the DPLA, which is protected by copyright, is provided under a CC0
license.

10. Content

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Content
 The content that is contributed to or funded by the DPLA will be
made available, including through bulk download, with no new
restrictions, via a service available to libraries, museums, and
archives in the United States, where use and reuse is governed only
by public law.
 The DPLA claims no rights based on digitization.

13. Tools and Services

14. Community

16. 1. How are we failing researchers
and what can we do about it?

20. 2. How are we failing students and
what can we do about it?

23. How are we failing innovation,
society and business and what can
we do about it?

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26. + Maura Marx
mmarx@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Digital Public Library of America