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The DPLA is the Digital Public Library of
America.

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It’s a conversation that’s been happening
for - it will be two years in October.

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But late last spring, people were talking
about what is the DPLA, what does it look

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like, what does it do, and we thought to kind
of relieve some tension off of people wanting

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to build things, we would do something called
a Beta Sprint.

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In the Beta Sprint basically we ask people
to build what they think the DPLA should be,

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and the moment we said build, it could have
been code, it could have been an actual prototype

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which is what we did, it could have been just,
you know an essay or a slide deck and we had

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60 people, groups - teams, say that they were
interested or letters of intent and we actually

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had over 40 submissions at the end of the
summer, because all summer we spent sprinting,

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really intense.

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But by the end of August you had to summit
your product and then it was reviewed by a

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really great review panel and then six were
selected to present as, you know top influencers

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or some really good ideas there to influence
and, I guess, inform, design our conversation

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around DPLA.

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And then there are three other, you know other
lightening moments that also had some really

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cool ideas, but maybe they want core ideas,
but may be some really neat things to consider.

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So the Beta Sprint team I worked on like I
said with the University of Illinois; and

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it was really to amplify a lot of work that
has been going on the IMLS has been supporting

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for the past nine years, around the IMLS digital
collections and content registry and the complementary

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resource called Over the History.
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