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DLF documents
DLF documents
and promotes
and promotes
strategies for
strategies for
building sustainable,
building sustainable,
scalable digital
scalable digital
collections, and
collections, and
encourages the
encourages the
development of
development of
new collections
new collections
and related
and related
services.
services.
DLF identifies,
DLF identifies,
documents, and
documents, and
endorses standards
endorses standards
and best practices
and best practices
that support the
that support the
effective creation,
effective creation,
interchange,
interchange,
re-use, and
re-use, and
persistence of
persistence of
digital library
digital library
objects.
objects.
DLF focuses on
DLF focuses on
practical initiatives
practical initiatives
and research in
and research in
under-served
under-served
areas of digital
areas of digital
preservation, and
preservation, and
is committed to
is committed to
long-term access
long-term access
to the digital
to the digital
intellectual and
intellectual and
scholarly record.
scholarly record.
DLF encourages
DLF encourages
initiatives that
initiatives that
assess and
assess and
explain patterns
explain patterns
of digital library
of digital library
usage, to help
usage, to help
libraries build
libraries build
better-informed,
better-informed,
more useable,
more useable,
collections and
collections and
services.
services.
DLF defines and
DLF defines and
and develops
and develops
prototypes for
prototypes for
digital library
digital library
architectures,
architectures,
systems, and
systems, and
system components,
system components,
communicates
communicates
important technical
important technical
trends, and
trends, and
encourages
encourages
technology
technology
transfer and
transfer and
information sharing.
information sharing.
