The Digital Library Federation (DLF) board approved the DLF Aquifer Business Plan on May 20. For background, see Katherine Kott's profile of DLF Aquifer in the May/June CLIR Issues. Excerpt from Kott: 'The idea of a distributed, open digital library reemerged at the DLF Fall Forum in 2003. By the time that the 2004 DLF Spring Forum was convened, the temporary acronym DODL had been replaced by the new name, "Aquifer."...DLF Aquifer will enable a variety of digital library components to interoperate smoothly by [1] providing access, in context, to objects in repositories that preserve; [2] knowing about the data in a variety of content-management and e-learning systems; [3] interacting with repositories and personal content-management systems that store modified digital objects; and [4] making sense of the output from mass-digitization projects such as Google’s recently announced partnership with libraries.' Also see the DLF Aquifer chronology and background.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/27/2005 11:14:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
