Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge. Report to the President.

摘要

Over the past year, the Presidents Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) has focused much of its attention on providing a vision for information technologys role in driving progress in the 21st century, particularly progress in education and human development for all citizens. One of two PITAC panels focusing on educational issues examined the status of digital libraries the networked collections of digital text, documents, images, sounds, scientific data, and software that are the core of todays Internet and tomorrows universally accessible digital repositories of all human knowledge. We are especially proud of this report, Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, because of the profound relevance of this technology to advancing quality education in every school, learning center, and home in the country.