Digital Library Initiative. Project sponsored by NSF, DARPA, and NASA to advance the collection, storage and organization of digital information, and to make such information more easily available through communication networks
Digital Libraries Initiative. Six research projects developing new technologies for digital libraries -- storehouses of information available through the Internet, -funded through a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The projects' 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.