WikipeDPLA

WikipeDPLA

See relevant content from the Digital Public Library of America in Wikipedia

What is WikipeDPLA?
WikipeDPLA is a Chrome extension that retrieves relevant items from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) based on the title, redirects, and categories of a Wikipedia article. It provides easy access to related content without transmitting user data or using analytics.
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Stats
Users: 97 ▼ -8
Rating: 5.00 (4)
Version: 1.3.1 (Last updated: 2022-07-01)
Creation date: 2015-07-19
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • https://api.dp.la/
Size: 129.02K
URLs: Website
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Summary

This extension queries the DPLA each time you visit a Wikipedia article, using the article's title, redirects, and categories to find relevant items. If you click a link at the top of the article, it loads a series of links to the items.

The original code behind WikiDPLA was written at LibHack, a hackathon at the American Library Association's 2014 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Does not transmit user data anywhere nor use analytics.

☆☆☆ OPEN SOURCE ☆☆☆

The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/phette23/wdpla-ext

User reviews
Extremely useful if you are going to school and your instructor is telling you that you can't use wikipedia as a scholarly source. With this, you can research DPLA to find scholarly sources cited in wikipedia.

I helped Phette code this script at LibHack and it's been nifty from the beginning. It does just what it says, surfaces relevant documents and images on a live Wikipedia article. It pulls directly from DPLA's API and is a great way to go digital explorin' from the encyclopedic overview of Wikipedia to the archival treasures catalogued at the Digital Public Library of America. Neat!
by Jake Orlowitz Jake Orlowitz, 2014-07-28
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Safety
Risk impact

WikipeDPLA is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

WikipeDPLA has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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