In the 2013 NYRB piece, Darnton described the DPLA as ‘a distributed system of electronic content that will make the holdings of public and research libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies available, effortlessly and free of charge.’ Initially, the offering would ‘be limited to a rich variety of collections—books, manuscripts, and works of art—that have already been digitized in cultural institutions throughout the country.’ But around that core, he predicted, the DPLA ‘will grow, gradually accumulating material of all kinds until it will function as a national digital library.’ The words science, scientific, and journal never appeared in that 2013 piece, though implications for them did.
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