UK Libraries and the Kentucky Digital Library have been selected
to receive funding from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to serve
as one of the initial content hubs. Kentucky was selected based on the
strengths of our technology and our content.
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Knight Foundation have
each committed $1M to support this initial pilot of the program. We will be
receiving roughly $350K for our initial two years of participation. Kentucky is
one of four large content hubs to be selected (Georgia, Minnesota, Mountain
West Digital Library and Kentucky); there are also four smaller hubs (Oregon,
South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Illinois) that will participate.
The DPLA (http://dp.la)
is envisioned to serve as a national digital library that will bring together
the living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in
order to educate, inform and empower everyone in the current and future
generations. It will be much more than
an aggregate of the content – tools are being developed that will enable anyone
to use the content in innumerable creative ways and will allow people to truly
engage with the content. This project
will be a game changer for digital access to cultural heritage.
The best creative minds who are deeply engaged in digital access
to information are being tapped to work on DPLA. The goals are high but with hard work and
determination they are being met. This
is a very high visibility project. The
initial rollout of the project is scheduled for April 2013.
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