Aggregating and Representing Collections in the Digital Public Library of America
beSpacific 2016-11-05
Summary:
“The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), and makes them freely available to the world. LAMs share much in common, but can differ widely in description practices. Archives, in particular, differ from the other two in the use of hierarchical description that situates materials […]