A digital library, repository or platform is a place to discover, create and share knowledge and ideas through open access to digital information and connections between people. It acts as both a repository for preserving collections of knowledge and a facilitator for developing and sharing new ideas. An important role is providing a trust framework to ensure the provenance or origins of information are verifiable. The goals are to apply the technologies and culture of the internet to respond to people's expectations of access while serving the traditional library functions of being a place of record and discovery in a digital context.

1. What is a digital library, repository or platform?
Tom Scott, UK medical heritage library event
27/10/2016
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2. what is a
digital library
repository or platform

4. what is a
library?

5. a repository
of knowledge?

6. a place of
record?

7. but what is a
library for?

8. an historical
perspective

9. the web

10. focused on
digital access to
that information

11. what is
digital?

12. “applying the culture,
practices & technologies
of the internet era to
respond to people’s
raised expectations”
Tom Loosemore

15. what might that
mean for digital
libraries?

16. libraries are defined
by their collections,
the people who use it
and the ideas those
people have

17. a place to discover,
create and share
ideas so that people
can make meaning
from knowledge

18. a platform for
facilitating the
development and
sharing of ideas

19. a trust framework to
ensure provenience

20. open access to
information,
ideas and people

21. thank you
@derivadow
linkedin.com/in/derivadow
t.scott@wellcome.ac.uk