This document discusses leveraging existing digital collections and technologies for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). It notes that Google has scanned about 130 million books, the Smithsonian has digitized over 137 million objects, and the National Archives has billions of digitized documents. It encourages local libraries and museums to augment large-scale digitization efforts by doing their own "boutique" and "cottage" scanning. Finally, it provides contact information for the speaker and references images from the Library of Congress related to standing on the shoulders of giants and joining together.

1. The Shoulders of Giants
Leveraging Existing
Technologies for the
DPLA
DPLA Technical Meeting
Library of Congress
Washington, DC Martin R. Kalfatovic / 14 June 2011

2. El Dorado County Public Library
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Travelin' Librarian
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/176011378/

4. What Descartes did was a good step. You
have added much several ways, and
especially in taking the colours of thin plates
into philosophical consideration. If I have
seen a little further it is by standing on the
shoulders of Giants.
- Issac Newton, 1676

5. Google estimates about
130,000,000 books
Smithsonian collections
137,000,000 objects, specimens, artifacts
National Archives
Billions of documents

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languages, plus spaces and some
punctuation)
Each line has 50 spaces
Each page is 40 lines long
Each book is 500 pages long
Total Books: 100 1,000,000
Googolplex: 1 followed by a googol
(10100) zeros

9. Vast … but not infinite

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14. What existing collections are there?
What are the proven technologies
Encourage "boutique" and "cottage"
scanning at local levels to augment
mass scanning
Denver Art Museum &
Denver Public Library

15. Digitizing Vendors

16. Digitizing Partners

17. Ben Franklin
Avatar for the DPLA

18. Now, let's discuss

19. Martin R. Kalfatovic
Twitter: udcmrk
Blog: udc793.blogspot.com
“Shoulders of Giants” and “Join or Die” from the Library of Congress