News from online: untangling the web-the national digital libraries initiative

摘要

If the collection of materials found at your local library was as disorganized and chaotic as the World Wide Web, it would resemble random piles of information of varying quality on an unimaginable range of topics strewn about a very large room-actually, more like a warehouse. To facilitate access to the vast resources of the Internet, the National Science Foundation has created the Digital Libraries Initiative (on the Web at http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/), now in Phase Two, and the resulting National Science Digital Library at http://www.nsdl.org. These are just two aspects of a broad approach to create the next generation of Web-based resources for science educators and students at all levels.