World Digital Library

The World Digital Library is a collection of cultural material from libraries around the world.

Description

Links

• http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org

Languages

• English, Spanish, Russian

Size

• >> 1 TB from the Library of Congress; smaller collections from other libraries of the rough dozen countries involved.

OLPC contributions

• Contributed content to library releases 0 and 1, formerly at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/.

Formats

• Formats materials are currently in : widely varied format and metadata. Images, audio files, and text files in many formats, html, videos,
• Scripting: individual scripts may be suitable for online collections; much of the curation is being done internal

Curator Info

Group: Library of Congress

Group coordinator: Kevin Novak, Justin Thorp

Curator(s): Librarians @ LOC...

Allottable size: 10M / 2G

Assessment

Scope: very broad. cultural materials, artefacts, library and museum collections.

Completeness: close to done

Multilingualism: primarily en; have 20+ language specialties

Quality: high to highest

Freeness: freest; public domain

Comments, Tags, and Ratings

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