Beta Sprint was announced in May, 20011, as a way to solicit ideas about how the DPLA should index and gather content.
Nearly 40 submissions were received from government agencies, non-profit organizations, academic research teams, librarians, and individuals. The DPLA Steering Committee reviewed the contributions in September, 2011, and chose six to present their work at the first plenary meeting on October 21, 2011.
One of the groups selected to present at the October meeting was spearheaded by GSLIS Professor Carole Palmer, director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS).
Building on work begun in 2002 as part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Digital Collections and Content (IMLS DCC), the prototype submitted to the committee is an expansion of the Digital Content and Collections Registry (DCC).
The project brings together collection contexts from nearly every state and features an item-level metadata repository which retains the characteristics of local metadata but is able to be integrated into a national platform. The researchers have built a search tool to access over one million digital items.
Prototype: http://dpla.grainger.illinois.edu/
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