We don't need a German Digital Library. There is already a Global Digital Library, so "GDL" is already taken as a trademark, sorry (ok, the German version uses DDB as label): "the net".
"Without such a formal domain model, you're just creating 'text', not 'data'. Which is indeed what we used to do, when the text was destined for printed cards or pages. But now we need data."
"Do you know what I think they major problem is? Lack of knowledge management. No idea about digital persistent identification. No subject-centricity. No understanding of semantics in data modeling. No clue about ontologies, inferencing, guides by analogy, no real
knowledge about collection management ( ... wait for it ... ) with multiple hooks and identities, no serious *want* to learn these things, and definitly no budget if they did."