Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration | Berkman Center

"Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage available to a large part of the world’s population. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that it will design its technical structure in a way to promote interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives of Europe....Another outcome of this collaboration will be a virtual exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America....The Digital Public Library of America and Europeana...will be guided in this mission by the following principles. They will make their systems and data interoperable to the greatest possible extent. They will promote open access to the greatest possible extent through joint existing and new policies concerning content, data, and metadata...."