World Digital Library

The Library of Congress and UNESCO project World Digital Library (WDL) is on its way.

“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.”

I’m especially excited about the “expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet” part.

Via LibrarianInBlack.