How the Digital Public Library of America is Changing Historical Research

Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America

New large-scale digital collections such as the Digital Public Library of America bring together millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums, and can form the basis for new kinds of research. Understanding how these collections are assembled, and how their data is structured and made available, is essential for envisioning such new uses and the scholarship that might now be possible.