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From World Digital Library portal

The World Digital Library will launch on April 21, 2009.

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research

How to Get Involved

Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions interested in becoming partners of the World Digital Library should contact the World Digital Library planning team at http://project.wdl.org/project/english/contact/.

The World Digital Library will work with prospective partners to accomplish three objectives:

Identify important collections for possible inclusion in the World Digital Library

Such collections may be found in national libraries, other libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, religious institutions, and private holdings.

Survey existing projects and capacities

Are projects already planned or underway?
Are there synergies between WDL and such projects?
What capabilities exist?
What gaps need to be filled?

• Staff
• Training
• Equipment
• Preservation work

Develop plans and proposals to build capacity

Digitization capacity (personnel and equipment)
Web presentation and interpretation capacities

• Metadata creation
• Translation
• Content creation (interpretation, special features)

Capacity to connect to the WDL system architecture