Pull quote: ‘We make things because that’s how we understand. We make things because that’s how we pass them on, and because everything we have was passed on to us as a made object. We make things in digital humanities because that’s how we interpret and conserve our inheritance. Because that’s how we can make it all anew.”
Pull quote: “If we are to avoid similar serious gaps in preserving our culture, it will be necessary for the Library [of Congress] to create new and direct relationships with retailing outlets for independent authors and self-published literature. Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many others will have to demonstrate willingness to actively support deposit of works in a timely and efficient manner, and to assist in the policy discussions necessary to ensure that this huge upsurge of literature is not lost. In addition, partnerships with public libraries that are fostering and collecting community publishing efforts can form preservation partnerships, either via DPLA, or in an aggregation network that could work directly with the Library.”
Pull quote: “My first question is: to what extent would this moving wall disincentivize academic and public libraries to maintain and preserve their own print collections, once the DPLA’s materials are available?…Second – and I must credit one of our library’s interns for this question – since the DPLA will aggregate many different digital collections, how confident are we that digitization standards will be consistent?”
