We’ve entered the DPLA’s “beta sprint,” along with thirteen fantastic partners (so far)!

Klint Finley at ReadWriteWeb discusses a report from the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner that asks if anonymization preserves privacy against attempts to re-identification. The report concludes that anonymization remains an important safeguard, and that the risks of re-identification of individuals within a crowd of anonymized data are lower than many fear.

Kevin Kelly recently posted his thoughts on the Internet Archive’s physical preservation approach. The post is well worth the read, but if you’ve reached your link-clicking quota today, the following sums it up nicely:

“The big idea that EVERY digital form ultimately rests in a physical form is a deep truth that needs to be understood more widely.”

MacKenzie Smith of MIT and Creative Commons talks about the new 4-star rating system for open licenses for metadata from cultural institutions:

The draft is up on the LOD-LAM site.

Here are some comments on the system from open access guru Peter Suber.

Anra Kennedy of Culture 24 and Susan Chun of the Audience project talk at the LOD-LAM conference about the value of data about the attendees of museums and other cultural institutions, and the advantages and limitations of making that that data open.

Brewster Kahle gives a tour of one of the Internet Archive’s book scanning facilities. This one is part of the Archive’s San Francisco headquarters:

Recorded during a tour of the facilities, as part of the LOD-LAM conference.

Eric Hellman explains how GlueJar.com will enable readers to pool money to buy the rights to works so that those works can be made available for free to the world. (Recorded at the LOD-LAM conference in San Francisco.)

Kristin Eschenfelder of University of Wisconsin Madison discusses her recent research on why cultural institutions resist making their materials openly available (videoed at the LODLAM conference).

Roy Tennant of OCLC talks about that organization’s commitment to linked data. At 2:30 he recapitulates his announcement that OCLC will release bibliographic data for the million works most widely held by libraries. Towards the end, he talks about the tension at the OCLC between opening data and the need to fund the infrastructure for maintaining and improving metadata.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, reads from an oddly prescient 1936 about preserving the current media types: