For me, the DPLA is first and foremost a huge waste of money. I didn’t understand what it was all about from the start.
The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting enables exactly what the DPLA wants to achieve: the collection of metadata of digital objects.
The Bielefeld search engine BASE shows that it is possible to bring together metadata from 11,000+ sources without a huge budget.
https://www.base-search.net/about/de/about_sources_date.php
The restriction to the USA makes no sense, as it is important to tap into the wealth of digital collections worldwide. What BASE does is a hundred times better than the DPLA.
OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (30. Juli 2024). Why I don’t think much of the Digital Public Library of America. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 17. Februar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/123y7