NCore: Vision

NCore aims to provide a compelling suite of services, and end-user tools combined with the proven ability to support a large, production digital library demonstrated in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) use case. The NCore suite serves as both a model for digital library architectures and implementations, and as an open source platform on which digital library users, developers, information managers and decision makers can build their own production systems. The NCore vision of "users as contributors" aims to power a new generation of collaborative, community-driven digital libraries that fully integrate with the tools, technology, infrastructure, social, information networks of the World Wide Web into the future.