A Timeline of our Library Future

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Brief Timeline of the Digital Public Libraries of America

A note: The idea of a digital "revolution" and an interest in a national digital library has been considered since the 1990's.  While the actual process is now becoming more of a reality, the idea has been around for a good deal of time.

This process/timeline has happened in three stages:

     DECEMBER of 2010, Stage 1

• Initial development of a metadata platform.  A group comprised of people from Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society got this major idea off the ground and running.  (dp.la/dev)
• This was the year that they did research and collected data about content/collections to use in the DPLA. 

     MARCH of 2012, Stage 2

• A concept note was brought in to discuss the plan for the DPLA.
• Integrating development of a prototype for how this is going to work for the general public
• They created an interface for users to interact with the large amount of records the DPLA will contain.     

           Stage 3

• The official team was assembled (see dp.la.org for more information)
• A network of developers, designers, architecture consultants and library technical experts to build their digital library.                                                                                                      

     JULY of 2012

•  A High-Level Technical Development Plan - how to put Stages 2 and 3 together and then into action.  
• A Steering Committee conference call happened on July 20, 2012

     APRIL of 2013

• The current projected time the DPLA will be launched for public use.

Websites accessed for this information include: 

1. dp.la/dev/
2. dp.la/wiki/main_page
3. techcrunch.com
4. march.rutgers.edu 
5. http://dp.la/files/2012/07/SCNominatingCommitteeCallNotes_7-23-12.pdf