The Digital Public Library of America, Linked Data, and More Discussed in Latest CLIR Issues

CLIR Resources
Council on Library and Information Resources, No. 81 (May/June 2011)

It includes the following articles:

“An Enclosure of Spirits”

From a Summary: “What form should a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) take? What will be its audience, uses, and capabilities? CLIR President Chuck Henry warns that defining hard and fast categories of users and content boundaries will impede development of the DPLA and argues for creating a resource that can serve flexibly a broad variety of needs known and as-yet unknown.”

“Why is Everyone Talking about Linked Data?”

Digital Library Federation (DLF) Director Rachel Frick summarizes recent discussions on linked data and possible next steps for DLF.

“Newly Accessible Civil Rights and Voter Education Collections Spur New Connections: Collections Processed and Cataloged as Part of Hidden Collections Grant”
by Kelly Miller

Collaborative work to expose three major archival collections documenting the civil rights and voter education movements in the United States is affording archivists and scholars new insights into one of the most transformational eras in US history.

Also in Issue No. 81

“Kathleen Fear Awarded 2011 Zipf Fellowship”

“CLIR Names 2011 Rovelstad Scholarship Recipient”