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The World Digital Library aims to bring together the world's greatest cultural treasures .- The UNESCO launches this month

York Times - Madrid - 09/04/2009

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will be a great digital library that will bring together the most beautiful cultural treasures of the world, from ancient Chinese manuscripts and maps of the New World to the original texts of Rabelais and postcards of Sarah Bernhardt. The World Digital Library (World Digital Library) will be launched next month at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, with a multimillion dollar budget with private donations collected, among which are counted by Google and Microsoft, reports British newspaper The Guardian .

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The new World Digital Library aims to cover the most precious cultural treasures around the world, from Sweden to South Africa to Saudi Arabia. With the collaboration of 32 institutions around the world, as the Library of Congress and the Wellcome Collection, from United Kingdom, and the curators of the UNESCO. Will be completely free and will be translated into seven languages. Ambition the project is unprecedented and has already been presented as "a cultural cathedral" online.

"We hope that brings cultures, fostering better understanding between these cultures and to provide educational uses for a world where reading and study has to compete with media that operate 24 hours seven days a week, "said John van Oudenaren, director of the project.

is a similar plan to scan library Europeana , inaugurated last November by the European Union after scan millions of books, works of art, manuscripts, maps, films and audio and video documents from national libraries and galleries across Europe. The day started, the number of visits the web collapsed.

In search of global digitization

The new World Digital Library wants to cover as many countries, but will have the limitations imposed by the lack of digitization in many countries development, especially in Africa. "It is above all an open and long term, "warned Van Oudenaren." We would like to partner institutions in each country in the world, because only then will become a true global library.

And their goal is the greatest cultural treasures, as they insist the organizers. From the French National Library, for example, will show films from the Lumiere brothers, the late nineteenth century, and a 1898 recording of La Marseillaise . In the United Kingdom, the Wellcome Collection will provide drawings of anatomy and scientific texts even the first draft of the double helix of DNA, drawn by one of its discoverers, Francis Crick. In addition, National Library and Archives of Iraq will meet a number of newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries written in Arabic, English, Kurdish and Turkish Ottomans. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a leader in the digitization of treasures from the Arab world, offering plates Description of Egypt, a work of scientific observation made by French scholars during the military invasion by Napoleon in 1798.