DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. For more information, visit the DPLA website.
Want to learn more about DPLA's curation projects and how you can get involved? In this session, Franky Abbott, lead on DPLA's curation activities, detail ways that partners and other external curators can collaborate with DPLA in the coming year. She will share DPLA's current strategy for public engagement with partner content and the principles that guide curation at DPLA and give a progress report on DPLA's current projects, Exhibitions and Primary Source Sets. The session will also preview new initiatives, including the creation of an interface for browsing DPLA by topic.
