Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge

Nagel, David C. and Chen, Ching-chih and Gray, James N. and Kahn, Robert E. and Reddy, Raj (2001) Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge. Technical Report.

Abstract

In Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, the Committee offers its findings and recommendations for how digital libraries can be an essential resource for human learning and development. The PITAC offers four key recommendations that will make digital libraries more pervasive and usable by all citizens: *Expanded research in metadata and metadata use, scalability, interoperability, archival storage and preservation, intellectual property rights, privacy and security, and human use *Create several Federally funded large-scale digital library testbeds *Provide Federal funding to make all public Federal content persistently available in digital form on the Internet *Have the Federal government play a leadership role in evolving policy to fairly address intellectual property rights in the digital age