Free as in Tibet: ibiblio's cultural cultivation and community creation
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ibiblio is a digital library hosted at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that manages to be both a repository for cultural information and a resource for community building. The project has existed in many forms since the beginning of the web, and has maintained a core commitment to open source software and tools. ibiblio’s maintainers have continually expanded the project’s offerings in response to the availability of new technologies and the support of financial and technological partners. Their newest project is an open source weblog development and distribution system.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- OCLC Systems & Services
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004