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which are trying to include everything but are thus limited to whatever metadata and presentation each participant offers, which is often rudimentary. Comparisons between such projects are tempting but ultimately unfair because they're simply different goals, neither of which is wrong. The other thing which is important to remember is that as a digital library, WDL is limited to material which has already been digitized:
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I think the underlying issue was simply confusion over the project goals: WDL was never intended to place millions of items online but rather the most significant documents with consistent, high-quality metadata, translations and presentation. This approach is sometimes contrasted with other projects
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Oh, and it might be good to clarify what you're referring too a little bit more. I'm confused - do you mean that the WDL doesn't seem to have as many items as people thought it would? It's confusing to understand the "item" numbers on WDL. They actually have over 7,000 "things" on WDL - 7,000 images,
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There are lots of sources from a couple of years ago trumpeting the WDL. Currently it has only a small number of items, something that doesn't appear to have been foreseen in the those sources. A sourced explanation of why this is the case would be be very useful.
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Added updated information to the article. Current item tally is 9,900 as of Feb 2014, which is an eightfold improvement in slightly less than five years, and about a 40% increase since last June.
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is helping some partners build the capacity to perform preservation-grade scanning inâhouse â a very important process which takes nonâtrivial amounts of time before producing visible results.
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I've made a userbox for the project. You can put it on your userpage by inputting {{User WP WDL}}. Thoughts?
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