{"id":158,"date":"2010-08-04T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2010-08-04T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:37:00","slug":"world-digital-library-web-site-worth-visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"World Digital Library &#8211; Web Site Worth Visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdl.org\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">http:\/\/www.wdl.org<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">The principal objectives of the WDL are to:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Promote international and intercultural understanding;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">photographs, and architectural drawings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">items provide additional information.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">materials, which are provided in their original languages.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">(UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;\">private foundations.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.wdl.org The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. 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