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Subject: FW: [dpla] Digital Public Library of America Announces
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:11:11 +0000
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*Subject:* [dpla] Digital Public Library of America Announces
Partnership with David Rumsey Map Collection
Digital Public Library of America Announces Partnership with David
Rumsey Map Collection
/April 30, 2013/
*Cambridge,*MA **— The Digital Public Library of America is pleased to
announce it is partnering with theDavid Rumsey Map Collection
<http://www.davidrumsey.com/>to provide online access to tens of
thousands of significant historical maps and images. As part of the
relationship, David Rumsey will provide metadata for over 38,000 maps
and images, making the entirety of his notable online collection
instantly accessible via theDPLA website <http://dp.la/>andAPI
<http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/>.
A couple prominent examples of items from the Rumsey collections
available through the DPLA are/The Eagle Map of the United States/,
produced by Joseph and James Churchman, Philadelphia, 1833, (view on the
DPLA
<http://dp.la/item/1619731699db08a2c2f8584e12729e72?back_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdp.la%2Fsearch%3Futf8%3D%E2%9C%93%26q%3DEagle%2Bmap>)/,/and
the/Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North
America/, produced in 1814 (view on the DPLA
<http://dp.la/item/a23e9843d4d3345245c9e577c1265081?back_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdp.la%2Fsearch%3Futf8%3D%E2%9C%93%26q%3Dlewis%2Bclark%2Bmap%2B1814>).
Other noteworthy items from Rumsey’s collections range from maps found
in historic atlases to images of three-dimensional objects such as globes.
“I am very excited to have my digital library of historical maps added
to the DPLA,” Rumsey said. “Maps tell stories that complement texts,
images, and other resources found in the growing DPLA library. And the
open content policies of my online library fit perfectly with DPLA’s
mission to make cultural resources freely available to all. I see DPLA
as reinvigorating the role of public libraries in educating children and
adults in the digital age. I hope that my participation can serve as an
example to others with private collections to share them with the public
through the DPLA. Private collectors have always helped to build
libraries and now they can do the same with digital cultural assets.”
“David Rumsey's incredible collection of historical maps is one of the
great private collections in the United States,” added DPLA Executive
Director Dan Cohen. “What he has been able to assemble and make broadly
available is simply astonishing. It is an honor to have these maps as
part of the DPLA, and together to help others discover what their
communities looked like in the past. We thank David for his generosity.”
Rumsey, President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing
company based in San Francisco, began building a collection of North and
South American historical maps and related cartographic materials in
1980. His collection, with more than 150,000 maps, is one of the largest
private map collections in the United States. In 1995, Rumsey began the
task of making his collection public by building theonline David Rumsey
Historical Map Collection <http://www.davidrumsey.com/>. Currently the
online web site has over 38,000 high-resolution images of maps from his
collection.
In 2009, Rumsey committed to donating his entire collection – both
physical and digital – to Stanford University, which is currently
creating an all-new Map Center to house it.
Rumsey’s online collection of maps is free to the public and is updated
monthly. All of the online maps are searchable via the DPLA.
*About the Digital Public Library of America*
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of
America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely
available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human
expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to
records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The
DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials,
and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and
used. More information is online at http://dp.la <http://dp.la/>.
*About the David Rumsey Map Collection*
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 25 years ago and
contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and
19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps
of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes
atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of
exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials
including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in
date from about 1700 to 1950s. More information is online
athttp://www.davidrumsey.com/about/about.
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