@BioDivLibrary accepts the DLF Community/Capacity Award w/the American Archive of Public Broadcasting #DLFforum

Photo by @tlroup

On 7 November, BHL officially received the Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016 Community/Capacity Award. The award, the first given by the DLF, was shared with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. BHL was honored to be selected by DLF members from an outstanding list of nominees.

Joining BHL Program Director on stage to accept the award from DLF Director Bethany Nowviskie  were BHL Member representative Kelli Trei (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Jacqueline Chapman and Joel Richard from Smithsonian Libraries. Representatives from BHL included Anne Kenney (University Librarian, Cornell University Library, Keri Thompson (Smithsonian Libraries), and Karl Blumenthal (Internet Archive).

See more about the award at:

• BHL Receives Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016 Community/Capacity Award
• Announcing DLF’s 2016 Community/Capacity Award Winners!

The 2016 DLF Forum also included a presentation by Trei, "The Impact of the Biodiversity Heritage Library on Scientific Research." The presentation details a study evaluating the scientific impact of the digital Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) through topic modeling and analysis of a series of interviews with scientific researchers featured in a BHL blog.

Kelli Trei at the DLF Forum

In case you missed it, Kojo Nmamdi devoted Tech Tuesday to the @DPLA (with @RLFrick and @DanCohen)

Kojo Nmamdi devoted his last Tech Tuesday of April 2013 to the Digital Public Library of America. I was invited back (having been on with Maura Marx and Maria Pallante 1 December 2011), joined by DPLA Founding Director Dan Cohen and Rachel Frick (Digital Library Federation).

It was a great chat with the charming host. Here's a description of the segment:

How the newly-launched online library builds off the work of public libraries, museums and archives and creates exciting new possibilities for researchers, programmers and curious minds. Public libraries have long played a central role in American communities. The Digital Public Library of America aims to follow in that tradition as an online database of the nation’s collective history and culture. We’ll look at how the newly-launched online library builds off the work of public libraries, museums and archives and creates exciting new possibilities for researchers, programmers and curious minds.

You can listen online here.

Short and unofficial recap of the @SILibraries / @CLIRDLF DC #DPLA launch meet up

A very successful DC launch party for the DPLA at Smithsonian Libraries. Co-hosted by myself (left) and Rachel Frick (Digital Library Federation), we ended up with around forty people all together from all around Washington, and one person who came down from Baltimore (Diana from the Enoch Pratt Library).

David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States (or AOTUS to the world) dropped by as we video called into Cambridge for a welcome from Dan Cohen (DPLA Executive Director), Emily Gore, Amy Rudensdoft, Maura Marx, Kenny Whitebloom, and (the indispensible) Rebekah Heacock (from the DPLA Secretariat and Berkman Center).

There'll be an official Smithsonian Libraries' blog post shortly ... but I wanted to get this one off tonight.

Oh, here's more photos!

Richard Naples