The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee has announced a “beta sprint” to encourage the development of demonstrations of what the library might ultimately look like. The committee is looking for ideas, either code or content, that express what a DPLA could be. Initial versions of these beta systems are due to the Steering Committee on September 1, 2011. The committee will select the most promising betas to be presented at a public, “big tent” meeting planned for early fall.
The official intellectual property and other terms and conditions will be posted online by May 20th. All participants must be 18 or over and must agree in advance to contribute a free, perpetual, worldwide license to all intellectual property used in the betas to the DPLA.
“The betas might be at various levels of completeness when they are presented; the notion is not that we expect anything to be ‘done,’ but rather expressive of a direction in which we might take the DPLA,” wrote John Palfrey, the Faculty Co-Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, a member of the steering committee.
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