what is a digital library, repository or platform?
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What is a digital library, repository or platform?Tom Scott, UK medical heritage library event
27/10/2016
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what is a digital libraryrepository or platform
what is a library?
a repository of knowledge?
a place of record?
but what is a library for?
an historical perspective
the web
focused on digital access to that information
what is digital?
“applying the culture, practices & technologies
of the internet era to respond to people’s raised expectations”
Tom Loosemore
what might that mean for digital
libraries?
libraries are defined by their collections,
the people who use it and the ideas those
people have
a place to discover, create and share
ideas so that people can make meaning from knowledge
a platform for facilitating the
development and sharing of ideas
a trust framework to ensure provenience
open access to information,
ideas and people
