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  1. What is 'DPLA' and what role does it play for US libraries?

    Answer: Digital Public Library of America — a free national portal providing access to millions of digitized items from US libraries, archives, and museums

    The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a free, national digital library platform providing public access to millions of digitized items aggregated from US libraries, archives, and museums.

  2. What does 'COUNTER' compliance mean for library database vendors?

    Answer: Vendors provide standardized, comparable usage statistics for electronic resources using the COUNTER code of practice

    COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international code of practice that sets standards for how vendors measure and report electronic resource usage statistics to libraries.

  3. What is 'persistent identifier' (PID) and why does it matter for digital libraries?

    Answer: A durable, stable identifier (like a DOI or ARK) that ensures a digital resource remains findable even if its URL changes

    Persistent identifiers like DOIs, ARKs, or PURLs provide stable, long-term identifiers for digital objects, ensuring they remain citable and findable even if server locations change.

  4. What does 'LOCKSS' stand for and how does it support digital preservation?

    Answer: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe — a distributed digital preservation network where libraries archive copies of licensed content

    LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a peer-reviewed digital preservation network developed at Stanford that allows libraries to maintain distributed, redundant copies of electronic content.

  5. What is 'semantic web' technology relevant to library cataloging?

    Answer: A web of linked, machine-readable data where information has meaning that computers can process and connect

    The semantic web is a vision for the web where data is structured and linked in machine-readable formats (RDF, OWL) so computers can interpret meaning and relationships — informing linked data in library cataloging.

  6. What is 'Dublin Core' and how is it used in digital libraries?

    Answer: A simple, 15-element metadata standard widely used for describing digital resources across different systems

    Dublin Core is a widely adopted metadata schema with 15 basic elements (e.g., title, creator, date, subject) designed for cross-system interoperability in describing digital resources.