Long-awaited network will open access to museum and library collections nationwide.

The Digital Public Library of America is a beautiful idea. Take the physical-to-digital ambition of Google Books and wed it to the civic spirit of the US public library system, providing a centralized portal to a decentralized network of digital media from libraries, museums, universities, archives, and other local, regional, and national collections. Framed in this way, it all seems so logical, so proper, so clear — everything the internet as a public commons promised to be. …

Ganze Artikel: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4178980/how-the-digital-public-library-of-america-hopes-to-build-a-real