The Well and the Cathedral » digital libraries http://www.bwesty.com Brook Westheimer writes about libraries, user experience, open source, graphic design Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:16:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Keep on Digitizing… http://www.bwesty.com/keep-on-digitizing/ http://www.bwesty.com/keep-on-digitizing/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:39:43 +0000 Brook Westheimer http://www.bwesty.com/?p=57 Another neat project, this time from UNESCO, the Library of Congress, and many other libraries. It’s a pretty neat addition to libraries in computers. Nice mission statement too.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:

  • Promote international and intercultural understanding;
  • Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
  • Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
  • Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

    • The World Digital Library

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