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This document highlights key international developments in digital libraries since 2007, focusing on the potential of collective digital content to advance scholarship. It discusses essential strategies such as enhancing the usefulness of data for external services, achieving scalability, fostering shared stewardship, creating contextualized aggregations, collaborating with domain experts, and emphasizing openness. Drawing insights from the Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015, it serves as a guide for maximizing the impact of digital libraries on research and education.
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Key international developments in digital libraries since 2007 Sarah L. Shreeves Digital Libraries for the Maghreb Washington, DCJanuary 24-25, 2011
To realize the potential of the collective base of digital content and advance scholarship, aggregations must do more than provide search of sizable bodies of content. - Carole Palmer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Major Themes • Usefulness and availability of data to external services • Working at scale • Shared stewardship • Contextualized and focused aggregations • Working with domain experts • Openness
From the Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015 - http://version1.europeana.eu/