Unesco launches digital world library
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is making cultural heritage accessible through a digital world library. For the launch on Tuesday, about 1,000 works were posted on the website.
The UN educational organization Unesco is making cultural heritage accessible in a digital world library. Around a thousand works were added to the website at the launch on Tuesday. On Wdl.org books, manuscripts, images, films and audio documents from libraries and archives around the world are available.
The aim is "international understanding" and to provide teachers, pupils and the public with study material, explained Unesco. According to James Billington from the US Library of Congress, however, the project is not intended to compete with other internet libraries such as the ad-financed Google Book Search or the European online archive Europeana.
The aim is "international understanding" and to provide teachers, pupils and the public with study material, explained Unesco. According to James Billington from the US Library of Congress, however, the project is not intended to compete with other internet libraries such as the ad-financed Google Book Search or the European online archive Europeana.
Caption: Detail from the panoramic photograph of the Lake Geneva basin with the Brunswick monument, taken at the beginning of the 20th century (source: www.wdl.org).
