John Van Oudenaren, The World Digital Library and the Social Sciences

Text of a presentation to be given at next week's IFLA conference in Milan. Van Oudenaren is the director of the WDL. For some reason the abstract is readable but the text is not. (Deliberate?) Abstract: "The World Digital Library, launched in April 2009, has the potential to benefit social scientists by: (1) providing researchers access to content that otherwise would not be available; (2) offering new tools to search, browse, and view content on line; and (3) facilitating the sharing of content in ways that promote interdisciplinary work and collaboration among researchers and their students. Social scientists can contribute to the WDL by (1) assisting with the selection of content; (2) contributing to the description and interpretation of content; and (3) suggesting new ways to catalog and classify materials on the WDL."