Grants

Digital Public Library of America, Inc.

To support the transition of the DPLA cultural heritage aggregation project to a new institutional home and develop a strategic plan for the future of DPLA

  • Amount $1,009,393
  • City Boston, MA
  • Investigator John Bracken
  • Year 2024
  • Program Public Understanding
  • Sub-program Special Initiatives

This grant to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides funding to transfer the organization’s core cultural aggregation effort—which includes the curation of more than 50 million digital objects from 6,000 libraries and archives nationwide—to the Free Library of Philadelphia. Grant funds will permit DPLA to migrate its entire collection, including all related metadata, to the Free Library, while continuing to preserve, manage and grow the collection over the next two years. Planned expenditures include outlays for data migration, technical integration into the Free Library’s existing systems, quality assurance, and staffing. Additional funds will support a strategic planning process in 2025 aimed at developing roadmap for the future of DPLA after the transition is completed.

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