A Peek at the World Digital Library Prototype

摘要

Digital libraries are springing up regularly around the world: those with digitized images of existing print materials and those offering access to "born digital" texts. They range from the output of a single publisher to special collections of a national library to the complete cultural output of the entire continent of Europe. However, an even broader vision of a World Digital Library was brought one step closer to reality at a signing ceremony in Paris last October.