DPLA Technical Workstream

Technical Aspects
Mission: Establish the technical and normative principles of the technological framework that will best support the DPLA's aims.
Chris Freeland & Martin Kalfatovic, (Co-Chairs) / Brian Bannon / Aaron Chaletzky / Tim DiLauro / Lee Dirks / Nasos Drosopoulos / Michael Edmonds / Emily Gore / Josh Greenberg / Stefanos Kollias / Jorge Martinez / Robert McDonald / Brad McLean / Carole Palmer / Jill Vermillion / David Weinberger / Pam Wright

Challenges
How does the Technical Aspects workstream…
Clarify the technical deliverables for DPLA?
Collaborate with the group(s) of people who will be assigned to write code and develop the product?
Provide input into the feasibility of decisions from other workstreams?

Deliverables
The "shiny thing" that demonstrates a killer app & possibilities of DPLA.
An open system with APIs and services that enable building user views and localizations into the content.
Short-term technical evaluations of the sprint projects to advise feasibility and interoperability.
Set of guiding principles to provide to other workstreams and technology partners.

Related Projects
Look for success stories, which wheels not to reinvent. Make use of existing standards and best practices - " No new standards! ”
User-provided content (YouTube, Flickr)
Book scanning & access projects
Personal library tools / Citation management tools
Collection registries / Institutional Repositories / Museum collections
Commercially-mediated content (Amazon / Hulu / Netflix / Spotify / Overdrive / iTunes)
Indexing services and knowledge bases (OCLC, Europeana, The Wikis, FreeBase)

Public Participation
People will become involved in DPLA by...
Engaging in development of public versioned code, so that they can see what's being built.
Enhancing DPLA deliverables via focus groups and usability testing in collaboration with other workstreams.
Enabling use & reuse of metadata, objects, collections & code within the DPLA.

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