Digital Public Library of America is the CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research CyberSelection for November-December 2013.
After decades of visioning and two and a half years of planning, DPLA (http://dp.la; the Digital Public Library of America) went live on April 18. I have been waiting to see what this site would include and what it would look like ever since it was announced, because I viewed the project as the closest that the U.S. could get to a project on as grand a scale as Europeana (http://europeana.eu), the digital library, museum, and archive of Europe.
DPLA launched with 2.4 million items, and as of this writing claims nearly 4 and a half million items from libraries, archives, and museums. That is only a hint of things to come, I trust, but it is enough to test the aims, organization, search capabilities, and other aspects of the site.
The full text of the November-December CyberSelection will be available in February 2014.
