The Sum Of All Knowledge? Yep, And Open Access Too
Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 11:49
in Mathematics & Economics
You can think of it as the United Nations of knowledge - except no dictators wearing pistols are allowed to get up and spout nonsense. Or you could think of it as the Wikipedia of knowledge, without letting marketing people and activists control what gets seen. Europeans call it DRIVER and it already has millions of documents. The backbone of DRIVER is a technological breakthrough that enables institutions to link repositories of knowledge together into one huge, networked online ‘library of libraries’. The software, called D-NET, can link information collected on diverse computer platforms, using legacy software which can still ‘talk’ or work with older systems. read more