The National Science Foundation's (NSF) workshop on the future of digital library research has just published its final report, which is available online. The workshop brought together a team of educators, researchers, librarians and technologists to consider the future research agenda for digital libraries. The 57-page report recommends that, in order to maintain national expertise and achieve necessary gains in research and education, the NSF should provide $20 million per year for innovative and exploratory research to address challenges in the creation, collection, organization, use and long-term availability of digital resources of all sorts in a rapidly evolving global information infrastructure. The report also suggests that $40 million per year be budgeted for transformative change to infrastructure and practice. The danger facing digital libraries is an abundance of information paired with insufficient information management. As a result, individuals and communities risk losing the ability to control and manage their own data. (Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries June 2003)
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