About the Digital Library Initiative (DLI)

The Digital Library Initiative is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The initiatives focus is to dramatically advance the means to collect, store, and organize information in digital forms, and make it available for searching, retrieval, and processing via communication networks--all in user-friendly ways.

Digital Libraries basically store materials in electronic format and manipulate large collections of those materials effectively. Research into digital libraries is research into network information systems, concentrating on how to develop the necessary infrastructure to effectively mass-manipulate the information on the Internet. The key technological issues are how to search and display desired selections from and across large collections.Visit the website of The NSF Digital Library Project.

DLI Projects

Carnegie Mellon University
Informedia Digital Video Library

Stanford University
Interoperation Mechanisms Among Heterogeneous Services

University of California at Berkeley
Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems

University of California at Santa Barbara
The Alexandria Project: Spatially Referenced Map Information

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Federating Repositories of Scientific Literature

University of Michigan
Intelligent Agents for Information Location