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The
notion of a "digital library" is a metaphor for
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thinking
about data collections in a networked
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world.
Digital libraries may take many forms, but
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they
all share some common infrastructure and
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goals.
For starters, digital libraries build upon
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collections
of digital or digitized data and rely on
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the
Internet for accessing and sharing these
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collections.
Common goals include preserving the
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data
over time for interested communities and
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helping
transform the data into information and
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knowledge. [NSF 2002 fact sheet]
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