World Library Notes

Digital Library Issues

Curation, selection: National archives/libs, global education materials, user generated content.

Rating + indexing (OER commons), mirroring + archiving (nat'l texts, nat'l servers, global repositories, school servers), scanning/digitizing libraries.

Curator network, gap analysis, localization stats, country buy-in int'l partners.

100G server, 30g for:

• Country history
• Large scale world history
• 2+ language materials
• images, maps, silent film, demonstrations, music

Mirrors/intake

-Tech workgroup -nat'l scan centers -nat'l mirrors -indexed culture (michael-culture.org)

Language

-Online TM -Language centers

search

-time, place -format, audience (for ed., for kids, etc.)

selection

-workgroup for content selection -subselect for translation