 So we're going to do two sessions back to back and then hopefully and even on time or maybe a few minutes early. This is the complementary session on DPLA as platform to follow up on Jeff Lick's discussion of the technical development scheme. I'm going to welcome up SJ Klein but also I think Martin Kelfadevic, the two directors of the co-chairs I suppose is the official term of the technical aspects work stream and they are going to talk about the DPLA as platform which as you'll see is a complementary approach to the approach that we've been taking with Jeff Lick with Pod and iFactory. So SJ and Martin, thank you. Thanks John. Thanks everybody. We're here today to talk not about the platform as a technical process which Jeffrey handled so well earlier but really as a platform is something that can take you someplace. So here we have our evocative graphic of the platform that will take you someplace in this case to Chicago. What we don't want to also mention though is that the platform is a magical thing and again thanks to the Image Think People, this is a picture from the October presentation last year of just how we were discussing the platform and what it would become. At the time we knew it wouldn't be magic and that it would really be nuts and bolts and gritty and eye beams and all that type of stuff that really makes things work. So what we now have is a DPLA platform that we can actually start doing stuff with, a platform that will take us places that we can do interesting things with. And how do we get to the platform? Well one thing that we did want to do is thank some of the people that actually helped us get to where the platform is today. I'm key to that is David Weinberger who was with us yesterday and David led the Interim Tech Development Group that brought about the whole platform. Just a quick round of applause for David who unfortunately couldn't be with us today and also Chris Freeland of Washington University in St. Louis now who was our original co-chair of the group. We have our list of names of the different people up there and I did want to highlight just one person which is Lee Dirks. Lee Dirks was a friend of many of us. He was a good friend of libraries. He was a very good friend of the DPLA and tragically we lost him in October to a car accident but it was just great working with Lee on this project and again a lot of what we have today is dependent on what Lee helped us build. So again as Jeffrey mentioned we've had a lot of other things happening on the DPLA platform back in April. We had our first hackathon. We actually called it a mini hackathon. We did it really quickly on a short time frame. We squeezed it in between the Berkman Harvard Education Lady Gaga event and thanks to all the Berkman staff for helping us get this all organized in really short notice. And this was our first experiment in sort of getting the platform out there and getting people out there all around the country to build on top of that. Similarly we had the Beta Sprint that was launched previously in October of 2011 and again as Jeffrey mentioned we hope to have some of those Beta Sprinters continue on in terms of developing on top of the platform as we move forward with the new DPLA. And again as you've heard we have the DPLA App Fest coming forward in the next month. And again Nate Hill who couldn't be with us today as his wife is having a baby. I don't know if she's had a yet. So Nate is now a father. And thanks to Nate for bringing us together with the Chattanooga hack people and I think the Chattanooga event is going to be great. And again we want to encourage people all around the country to participate in it virtually if you can't actually make it to the Chattanooga event. So what we want to do now is just do some quick questions of the audience of where you think the DPLA platform can take you or your community. And for that I'm going to turn it over to SJ. Thanks. What I love about coming to DPLA events is that we aren't one single community. We're a lot of very different communities who don't who don't actually get to hang out together very often outside this this forum. And sometimes I'm completely blown away and you have you have the entire development cycle of an idea from the authors to the publishers to the archivists to the re-users and the communities that are trying to mine things out of their communities data a hundred years later. And for me at least we're doing a lot of work with grassroots based data analysis and data munging. It's so nice to see everyone playing nicely together and being thoughtful together about what the future of libraries should be with the future of knowledge sharing should be. So I'd love to hear a little bit from the different communities in the audience what DPLA is a platform means to you. And there have been some amazing ideas that came out of the last couple of days a number of people saying here are the things that that we've been working on and developing that we hope to see shared with other people. Other groups saying here's what we've been waiting to get access to that we haven't had access to because we're too small or we're we're out of out of the circle of light where you have free access to different kinds of collections. And so I'd like everyone here to think about what DPLA is a platform means to your community to the people who you serve. And and what it might mean to products you currently have in development. How many people here have organized or hosted some kind of hacking or data event at their institution in the last year. That's great. Every one of those events sort of gets gets channel channeled a bit by the institution that hosts it. You have a chance to direct the efforts of some of your some of your own people who haven't had the free energy to go relax and do something new for a day and a half or a couple of days. And all the people in in in your neighborhood who haven't had a chance to work with you. This is the first time that we will that we will have a some active things for people to hack on in the last six or seven months. I've been I'm really enthusiastic about how quickly some things are moving. And I loved the way Paul Caron put it when he said this is our chance to have fun. We can experiment. Things are things are falling into place and if when you when you get an inspiration about something you want to see even if you don't know how to do it you can ask you can ask for something like that to happen. So I like to call on on some people in the audience. I know Michael Colford is here from from the Boston Public Library and you've been doing a lot of work with the state of Massachusetts and the Commonwealth collections. When I was first asked to just say a couple of words about this Boston Public Libraries is organizing the Digital Commonwealth Pilot Hub for DPLA. And a lot has been said about smaller libraries and the branding issues and the advocacy issues. And I see the platform as being able to really focus in on the very unique collections that we've all talked about very small public libraries and historical societies across the state or across the country have. And by working and being part of the DPLA it really shines a light on them exposes them so that we found at the Boston Public Library when we started doing this work helping smaller institutions to digitize their collections that legislators and funders really like that and they really took notice of that because it really serves their individual communities but then it just broadens it all out to a much more a much larger perspective and it kind of gives them bragging rights and they can really say that they're part of a much bigger thing. And with this whole ability to develop apps on top of this platform you know we all know that the people who are developing apps are kids that could be anywhere in the some sleepy little town in Western Massar in the middle of the country. So we see this as a really great opportunity for the small institutions that would never be able to get their very unique collections out to anyone that but the very few people who come into their institutions. Thanks. And is Alan here? So Alan works at LA in Washington office and the kinds of the kinds of policy questions that you all have to deal with are really important. I'd love to hear I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this affects your community. Sure just a few things. So Maureen Sullivan our president talked about access so instead of Michael talked about collections and getting collections out from small libraries out to many other people so they can see them. We're thinking access for all but also access for particular populations. So for access for those who are in small communities who you know this provides or has the potential providing tremendous capability and resources. So providing the access to those folks is one of the things that really really appeals to us as ALA. But also access for children and youth as education becomes more dependent on primary primary materials. And so it's another this could be a huge boon for that population on access for people with disabilities as information becomes more more tied up in contracts and licensing. We don't have as many rights as we used to in terms of doing things for people with disabilities. So in terms of access we're really excited about the potential for DPLA and it's not even cautious potential we it's real potential coming so we're we're excited to see that. The other thing is the I think the difference between the commercial and non-commercial sectors. So some of you may know that we've been doing a lot of work with the big six publishers and ebooks and trying to get better access for for libraries. But it kind of raises the larger issue of you know there's all this wonderful non-commercial content out there and how do we make better use of that. And that that's actually a competitive advantage for libraries. If we can just figure out how to make better use and provide services and it's all kind of atomized now. And so DPLA is is really the catalyst that can help us bring this material together and provide better and better services that are interesting. So we won't be so dependent on you know the best sellers from trade publishers and so on. You know which I've come to learn is a very problematic process to work problem to to attack. So it's another that's another way of thinking about DPLA. There are a lot of nice ideas about also in discussions today about how a new platform might help libraries think think about themselves in a different in a different context or be be used by the majority of the people in their cities that that currently don't don't necessarily get to use them with Carson. Oh Carson is awesome. Hi should I just speak. Please. Well you should introduce your community. My name is Carson Block. I used to be gainfully employed and now I'm on my own as a library technology consultant and it's been extremely exciting to be out and to be thinking about the idea of DPLA as a platform as Alan talked about we've got content challenges right and libraries public libraries are used to thinking of content in terms of things that we purchase in some way and that's valid as far as content goes but I'm really excited about DPLA is that this gives us an opportunity to take what's what exists now but is invisible and make it visible for everyone in a very very powerful way so not just in a static way like come and come and see it but there's going to be ways that it's integrated into into people's lives and I think that that that it will be transformational on this basis simply because of the design the design is really rich everything that we've worked on that that everyone has worked on in the different work streams from the governance to the to the nuts and bolts of the technology are really sinking together really well so I'm thrilled about that that concept of taking things that exist now things that we pay for with public dollars that are kind of invisible in a lot of cases and making them vivid in HD thanks Carson that line about making the invisible visible is something we could probably get new stickers for the great Sheila hi I'm Sheila McAllister I'm with the Digital Library of Georgia and we're located at the University of Georgia so not only are we a research library but we represent the land and sea grant institutions of our state and there are a couple things being a reason of having that kind of role really brings out and so we have we are really concerned with service and outreach to our to our our whole statewide community and DPLA as the folks from Boston Public mentioned really does read will reach out to to all sorts of different communities but I think what's really exciting from a research institution is the opportunity for our faculty and our students to use this platform to create new and innovative ways of looking at at the problems that are facing us new methods of scholarship and the like so we're very excited to be involved in the project other people with ideas about how their communities will build on top of the platform will potentially be drawing from it marking I'm Margie bring I'm I work for a publisher I work for a nonprofit scholarly publisher so I'm really excited about what this platform can do in terms of providing an infrastructure for a lot of the materials that we try to publish but aren't actually able to include into a book so currently we have whenever I'm approached by authors for publishing something there's so much stuff that we have to leave out and some of that is reasonable to leave out but a lot of it is because we can't print it and we can't we can accommodate the material with the DPLA platform we can link to these primary sources we could link to letters photographs videos images of things that that are not able to be described in print so I see this really enhancing scholarship as well as connecting scholarship with its original resources so some of the specific app ideas people were floating around yesterday included a lot of ways to pull back enriched metadata or to to enrich existing local sites for small institutions and to both what Margie and Michael are saying I certainly think that should make everyone's current institution at current sites a place for people to test out and experiment with those new things something that's beautiful independent of of the global vision or the global aggregation of of local collections and I guess I'll just bring it all the way down to the ultimate user I just went up to the your media while during the break and what I can envision in the very end is young people that will never get the car or they'll never get to all these other places going to open up the world to them and that's when you think about what that can do and what it would do for those kids that are right upstairs from us and what they'd be able to touch primary sources in a different way. So I really want to encourage people who have who have worked with children and who have worked with with audiences and are building their own local participation networks to think about ways that that could inform what VPLA is doing and ways that that could guide technical decisions that are being made or interface decisions that are being made. As Jeff mentioned interface is being a global interface is being designed in the next couple of months but the interfaces that people build on their own on top of instances of the DP light tools will will be fertile ground for other kinds of interface experiments. And just one final comment is again for those of you who haven't had a hackathon in your library spaces I really encourage you to do it get a couple bags of giant Doritos and some Mountain Dew turn on the lights let it go and come back a couple hours later and see what people have built with your content and the DPL light platform. If you want to hold a hackathon and you're not sure how to do it but you have space please let us know and we can help you organize something. We know there's going to be this one in Tennessee in a month. There's going to be something attached to an audience and participation event in Virginia in December I think we've now decided December 6th. So something there'll be something small and and maybe for half a day that we're trying to organize at Harvard. So if you if you have the the enthusiasm and you're not sure what it would what it would take talk to us talk to Nate. Think of it as a 21st century Tupperware party and we'll turn it back to John. Awesome thank you. Please join me in thanking SJ and Martin and their team. All right so this is our very last session. I just want to share a few thoughts on what you can expect in the next several months leading up to the April 2013 kickoff but also to make space if anyone has any any final comments or questions unrelated to the technical discussions we've just been having. I want to hit just a few key points which restate where we have come recently and then and where we're headed. As noted we've formed the new board of the DPLA and we have the new 501c3 set up. So in the next several months we'll be moving from a very draft form of bylaws and charter and so forth to a more fully form set. So if you have an interest in governance type work let us know and we can we'll be online in the governance work stream but also taking suggestions of that sort as we go forward. Second we've obviously made a huge amount of progress on the content and scope work stream which has led into the digital hubs pilot with Emily Gornell on the ground we're fantastically staffed initially we'll be building out a team around Emily and also obviously operationalizing those first seven hubs. We are on the lookout very much for additional content partners. We will be trying to figure out what that partnership agreement looks like. It may be that you will come forward to us as an institution we'll say we'd love to work with you and announce as a content hub even if we can't actually ingest the content before April so let's figure out how we can make a rolling thunder up to April in terms of announcement of institutions that wish to participate and help us figure out what that partnership agreement should look like. I think Emily said it beautifully there's a structure for doing this we want to try to reduce the one off one-to-one relationships between DPA and institutions so that it doesn't get too complex. We want to have that kind of agreement that can be scalable and effective across a range of different institutions and the more that we can set up these arrangements in advance of April 2013 even again if we don't ingest the data or metadata initially I think that's going to be very helpful for people to see where we are going. Third we've talked a lot about the content in terms of how it will be delivered in the technical terms in the last two sessions. We will be of course completing and launching the first prototype and again this is just a gesture this is just a prototype in April 2013 so don't expect too much of what you see then and we have to figure out how to talk about it in a way that lets people see the the vision of where we're headed without getting too disappointed in what we experienced at the beginning but I do think it's going to be fun and interactive and there are lots of ways to contribute to that as you've just heard I think the idea of 21st century Tupperware party sounds fabulous so if you would like to host such a party in the form of a hackathon we will be glad to provide some support for that in various ways I think we could do a whole pile of them between now and April 2013 and continuing and I think one of the things that has excited many people about this project is how we're taking the spirit of the open source community the spirit of the wikimedia community or mozilla or creative commons and bringing that into this kind of knowledge space and I think that's something that with the leadership of S.J. and Martin and David Weinberger and others will continue to do and then last of course continue to build community across all the different aspects of the work that we have together and you can be looking out to the board for our suggestions of how to do that and how we segue the steering committee and the work streams into a committee structure that will hopefully engage people in the work going forward to April 2013 and way beyond I'm going to pause there for a second I'm looking down at my colleagues Mora and Dora and others it's anything that you would want to have us remind the crew at this at this stage one last call out for any oh yes Doren I would thank you one to second your earlier comment when you're up there about that this is as much about communities about a product I think that's really important I think that message is evidenced by today and I think going forward even it's something that we need to keep talking about because I think that's a really key part of how we should define ourselves absolutely I think one of the ways in which we have sought to make this project different from other efforts to create national digital libraries whether here or around the world has been saying we're totally devoted to this being about the end user and about the community of people who care about these materials and doing it in a truly inclusive way we've got to keep ourselves honest in that way and really try to make this a model in that respect so we will continue to emphasize that as we as we start to launch other thoughts or questions to to share anyone from the live stream who feels ignored happy to have you tweet in or email in all right well I think that we are at a point that we actually can end early which is very exciting I'd love to have one final thank you to the people who worked so hard to make this happen both at the Chicago Public Library and at the Berkman Center Secretary please join me in thanking that crew and we'll see you all in April Thank you