Source:
Breaking the wall of
inaccessible knowledge. Dir. Robert Darnton. Perf. Robert Darnton. Films for the
Humanities & Sciences, 2012. Streaming Video.
Link:
Breaking the Wall of Inaccessible Knowledge.
How Digitization Can Democratize Culture is a short film recording a lecture presented by Robert Darnton at the
2011 Falling Walls Conference. Included at this site is the transcript
for the lecture along with the streaming video.
Darton’s credentials are extensive - founder of Gutenberg-e
project, a trustee of the New York Public Library, and a professor & university
librarian at Harvard. In this lecture, he describes the imposed restrictions to
the Google Book Project and the launch of the Digital Public Library of America
(DPLA), another attempt at making all the books in the world easily accessible.
He addresses two key issues:
1)
The cost of academic journals.
2)
A digital library.
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