App Library
The DPLA is a platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. The DPLA's application programming interface (API) and open data can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools for discovery, and engaging apps.
Become an App DeveloperDPLA Images
Rebekah Heacock Jones
DPLA Images lets you search the Digital Public Library of America, a collection of millions of cultural heritage objects from libraries, archives, and museums across the country, for images.
App Home Page »OMNIA
Niall O'Leary
Whether you're looking for a Rembrandt or Asterix, OMNIA lets you explore repositories such as Europeana or the Digital Public Library of America easily - by country, by provider, by map, by years or via the standard search.
App Home Page »HistoricalGIFs
Drew Gordon
This Twitter bot (@dpladotgif) brings you the DPLA one GIF at a time. Moving images at random from the Digital Public Library of America.
App Home Page »MetaDash
Dean Farrell
Use MetaDash to search the DPLA, Europeana or Digital New Zealand for a term or terms and view the metadata associated with your search.
App Home Page »WordPress Searcher Europeana & DPLA
Jose Fernández
WordPress Searcher Europeana & DPLA is a plugin that creates widgets for searching Europeana & DPLA.
App Home Page »WUD
Medicine & Society chair at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
WUD is a customised search engine helping you to pull, link and organise data from two major cultural heritage repositories: Europeana and DPLA.
App Home Page »Color Browse
Chad Nelson
Color Browse lets you search the DPLA by hundreds of shades and hues. Pick a color to browse through results in a totally new way.
App Home Page »Metadata Explorer
Dean Farrell
Metadata Explorer is an attempt to explore national digital libraries, pan-national digital libraries and libraries in general, in a different, hopefully useful way.
App Home Page »DPLA Item Flow
Dean Farrell
A visualization showing the the flow of hubs into the DPLA.
App Home Page »DPLA Partner Flow
Dean Farrell
A visualization showing the flow of items into DPLA hubs from their content providers.
App Home Page »DPLA Depositors Visualization
Dean Farrell
Hover over an institution's wedge to see how many items it has contributed to DPLA.
App Home Page »DPLA Bookshelf Language Visualization
Dean Farrell
Visually browse books by language and view them on the DPLA Bookshelf.
App Home Page »Term Frequency Map
Dean Farrell
See how your search term(s) frequency changes through time in DPLA.
App Home Page »DPLA Licenses
Dean Farrell
A treemap graphic that shows the top 575 licenses in the DPLA corpus, divided into four clusters.
App Home Page »DPLA Visual Search Prototype
Schuyler Lindberg
A prototype visual search interface that explores content from the Digital Public Library of America.
App Home Page »WikipeDPLA
Eric Phetteplace
See relevant results from the Digital Public Library of America on any Wikipedia article using this Google Chrome extension.
App Home Page »Term vs. Term
Owen Mundy
Compare the number of search results for two phrases from the Digital Public Library of America.
App Home Page »FindDPLA
Eric Phetteplace and Jake Orlowitz
Want to see DPLA's related text and images for any Wikipedia article? FindDPLA is an easy-to-install tool that pulls up relevant content from the DPLA any time you view a Wikipedia article.
App Home Page »Historical Cats
Adam Malantonio
A Twitter bot that grabs an item at random via the DPLA's API platform and tweets it out.
App Home Page »Metadata Games
Tiltfactor Labs
Metadata Games is a digital game platform for gathering data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts. The platform entices players to visit archives and explore humanities content while contributing to vital records. Metadata Games is fueled in part by digital materials contained in DPLA via its partners.
App Home Page »DPLA Search Widget
Dean Farrell and Josh Wilson
Search the DPLA right from your webpage in three easy steps! DPLA Search Widget allows you to easily install a DPLA search box on your website or WordPress pages.
App Home Page »Include content from the DPLA in your EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) profile in the form of a widget on the right side of your screen.
App Home Page »DPLA Discovery
Steven Anderson, Tom Morris, and Chris Strauber
DPLA Discovery is a widget that aims to provide multiple discovery interfaces in javascript that can be used in any website.
App Home Page »DPLA by County and State
Chad Nelson
DPLA by State and County allows you to see how well the DPLA represents each state and each county within a state.
App Home Page »Serendip-o-matic
One Week | One Tool, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Serendip-o-matic connects your sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums, and archives around the world, including the DPLA, Europeana, and Flickr Commons.
App Home Page »Culture Collage
Monique Szpak
Culture Collage is a simple tool that lets you search the Digital Public Library of America's image archive and view the results as a streaming river of images, just keep scrolling to fetch more.
App Home Page »OpenPics
Say Goodnight Software / PJ Gray
An open source iOS application for viewing images from multiple remote sources. Available for iPhone/iPad on the app store, or get the source code on GitHub!
App Home Page »DPLAbot
Mark Sample
@DPLAbot is a Twitter bot that tweets links to random items located in the vast collections of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
App Home Page »MINT Services
National Technical University of Athens
MINT services is a web based platform that allows users to define their metadata crosswalks in the DPLA schema with the help of a visual mappings editor for the XSL language.
App Home Page »Search DPLA and Europeana
Jesús Domínguez
Through the Europeana and DPLA APIs, it’s easy to discover sources of information previously unknown or unforeseen and go directly to a digital version of an item.
App Home Page »WP DPLA
Boone Gorges
WP DPLA is a WordPress plugin that helps your blog's readers discover interesting content from the DPLA.
App Home Page »DPLA Map
Ed Summers
DPLA Map is an experiment to see what the DPLA API results are for your current location using the HTML5 geolocation API.
App Home Page »Library Observatory
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Library Observatory recognizes a unique opportunity the emergence of the DPLA represents: both to imagine new ways of interacting with cultural and scientific resources and to reflect on what collections of such materials mean, what stories they tell.
App Home Page »StackLife
Harvard Library Innovation Lab
StackLife demonstrates one way a group independent of the Digital Public Library of America can create its own way of browsing its collection, using the information made openly available by the DPLA.
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