Digital Public Library of America Offers a Wealth of Historical Photos
DL Cade · Apr 19, 2013
Yesterday at noon, after 20 months of planning and work, the Digital Public Library of America finally made its debut. An initiative of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, the DPLA aims to provide anyone with Internet, access to a massive online archive of content including ebooks, manuscripts, works of art and, of course, photographs.
The DPLA was thought up in 2010 at a meeting in Cambridge, MA by Harvard University Librarian and History Professor Robert Darnton and 41 of his colleagues. They wanted to bring together the many disparate content catalogue of online archives, libraries, museums, and academic collections under one, publicly accessible, digital roof.
The result launched yesterday to much fanfare under the simple URL DP.LA. Using material from massive “content hubs” (e.g. The Smithsonian) and regional “service hubs” (e.g. regional digital libraries such as the Digital Library of Georgia), the site already provides a ton of content including photos from prohibition, a rich civil rights archive, and much much more.
Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/04/19/digital-public-library-of-america-offers-a-wealth-of-historical-photos/
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