The following talk was given at the opening of a conference at Harvard on October 1 to discuss the possibility of creating a National Digital Library.
The purpose of this meeting is to discuss a question of vital
importance to the cultural life of our country: Can we create
a National Digital Library? That is, a comprehensive library
of digitized books that will be easily accessible to the
general public. Simple as it sounds, the question is
extraordinarily complex. It involves issues that concern the
nature of the library to be built, the technological
difficulties of designing it, the legal obstacles to getting
it off the ground, the financial costs of constructing and
maintaining it, and the political problems of mobilizing
support for it.
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Continua qui:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/28/can-we-create-national-digital-library/