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Definitions are formulated to serve specific purposes.
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The research community’s definitions serve to identify and focus attention on research problems and to expand the community of interest around those problems.
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The library community’s de®nitions focus on practical challenges involved in transforming library institutions and services.
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Hence neither the research community nor library community definitions are particularly helpful in categorizing the vast array of databases available on the Internet, on proprietary services and on CD-ROMs.
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Ainda de “What are digital libraries? Competing visions” de Christine L. Borgman. Em resumo, em 1999 tanto a visão dos informáticos como a dos bibliotecários sobre a “biblioteca digital” andava às avessas com a visão dos comerciantes de dados, e agora adianto eu, com a visao de toda a gente que produz dados na internet.