What will happen with Aquifer?
Aquifer, a project to build communities of practice and tools for scholarship, has provided a context for cooperative development and production. Cooperative exploration of new technologies and development will likely continue to thrive as an outcome of the new program. Responsibility for Aquifer’s signature production project, American Social History Online, will transfer to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is unique about DLF, and why is it important to sustain? DLF has represented a unique commitment to collective development of the digital library context—of the professional community, of content, and of infrastructure. It has had notable accomplishments in the standards arena and has fostered a new community of professionals. Networking of talent has, from the start, been a key asset. While there are regional and other consortia that have engaged in discrete collaborative projects, DLF has sustained an ambitious and international agenda over time. From the earl
