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This article is providing an update of the advances DPLA has made in creating a digital national public library. DPLA announced the launch of it Digital Hubs Pilot Project in 7 states at DPLA Midwest (a large conference in Chicago. The project was created to help local libraries and communities digitize their collection with technological resources and supportive staff. A prototype will be launched in April of 2013 with topics including civil rights, Native Americans, and immigration. It also announced Appfest (held Nov. 8 & 9) to present ideas, including working models, of possible platforms for the metadata.

Cohen blogs about the future that he sees for The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). His passion sees to lie in collecting data and content from small, local libraries and museums. He still holds this goal despite recognizing the issues they would face in attempting to convert the material from physical to digital. He also talks about the technical layout and the best way to get it into peoples' hands (incorporating it into an app). He also touches upon technology that we do not have yet or is not yet out of the beta testing stage, and could be in the future of DPLA.

This brief news article from 2011 highlights an agreement between the Digital Public Libraries of America and Europeana to code their systems in such a way as to be interoperable and similar to each other. This change allows the two databases to be readily accessed and aggregated by the user, to "have access to the combined riches... at a single click." One of the major projects arising from this collaboration was a virtual exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America.

The Digital Public lIbrary of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project intedned to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available free or charge to all. With the Hubs Pilot, the DPLA will undertake the first efforts to establish a national network out of these and other promising intitives bringing together digitaized content from across the country into a singlr access for end users.

This website is an interactive site for anyone interested in The Digital Public LIbrary of America. The Digital Public Library of America hosted one of the largest public event that focused on the building of a digital public library. This event brought together many professionals including students, government leaders, and other humanities professionals. The members began discussing the development of a DPLA prototypes and encouraging the participation of the public. The Digital Public Library of America hosted one of the largest public event that focused on the building of a digital public library. This event brought together many professionals including students, government leaders, and other humanities professionals. The members began discussing the development of a DPLA prototypes and encouraging the participation of the public.

OKC is a collaborative effort to "make the record of human knowledge" inclusive. They plan to do this by digitizing printed or physical artifacts in libraries and creating an online collection. It talks about the issues libraries face, such as funding for digitization, and attempt to rectify the issues with the libraries. This page also includes projects OKC suports and is contributing to, such as the Wikipedia Gateway Project. It promotes collaboration between libraries and cultural centers and advocates for the smaller 'non-commercial players.' Their greatest interest concerning technology, is to attempt to advance and integrate existing technical architecture.