开发的数字式图书馆：高等教育的四项原则外文翻译.doc

外文翻译 原文 开发的数字式图书馆：高等教育的四项原则 Material Source: New Horizons Author: Donald Waters Developing Digital Libraries: Four Principles for Higher Education Higher education will surely be well served if it supports and maintains the development of digital libraries that contain works of lasting intellectual value, including both primary sources that open up and support new lines of scholarship in the arts and sciences and secondary sources that record and disseminate scholarly activity. But what priorities and policies should guide higher education in its approach to the development of digital libraries? Officially launched in April 2001 and funded with a $5 million startup grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,ArtSTOR may offer some answers to these questions. The mission of this emerging digital library is to develop, store, provide access to, and electronically distribute collections of high-quality digital images and related materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities. Its first research collection will be the Digital Design Collection, containing nearly 8,000 images with related documentation and representing over 80 percent of the materials in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). A second major research collection will be the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, containing highresolution digital-coverage photography and virtual-reality panoramas of the wall paintings in the worship caves at Dunhuang in western China, as well as digital images of paintings, drawings, manuscripts, the earliest printed books, and other objects that were originally at Dunhuang but are now located in museums and archives around the world. In addition, ArtSTOR is constructing a broader Image Gallery, comprising core collections of images and accompanying documentation for use in teaching and coursework. In the early stages of establishing ArtSTOR, four key principles have emerged—principles that will likely be