Digital Public Library of America

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is working to make artifacts from cultural heritage institutions more accessible to all by partnering with the Wikimedia Foundation to facilitate the incorporation of DPLA's media across Wikipedia platforms. The digital artifacts include maps, books, government documents, photos, and more from cultural heritage institutions across the U.S. and the web.

Since 2020, Digital Public Library of America has embarked on a project to provide digital assets from DPLA's contributors to Wikimedia Commons. The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

DPLA's Wikimedia project aims to build a single pipeline for the many diverse DPLA data providers to contribute digital assets to Wikimedia Commons. Compatible materials are only those which use a copyright license or rights statement that marks them as public domain or otherwise acceptable for use on Wikimedia Commons, and which have media accessible in a machine readable way (such as IIIF). A special point of emphasis for the project is DPLA's Black Women in the Suffrage Movement collection. This project is being led by Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, DPLA's Director of Community Engagement.