The document discusses the Digital Public Library of America's (DPLA) efforts in creating linked open data, presenting statistics like over 8 million records and 1,300 contributing institutions. It outlines the DPLA's metadata application profile, currently in version 3.1 and updating to version 4, and describes various RDF namespaces and standardized rights metadata initiatives. Future steps involve further integrating linked open data into library bibliographic records and developing services for it.