Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration. October 21, 2011 Washington, DC—Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage available to a large part of the world’s population.
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that it will design its technical structure in a way to promote interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives of Europe. Robert Darnton, a DPLA Steering Committee member and University Librarian at Harvard, said, “The association between the DPLA and Europeana means that users everywhere will eventually have access to the combined riches of the two systems at a single click. Another outcome of this collaboration will be a virtual exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America. Download Free Courses from Famous Philosophers: From Bertrand Russell to Michel Foucault. Interactives; Virtual Tours; Virtual Labs. Digital Libraries. Libraries on the Web - Real and Virtual.
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