Millions now regularly use the Web as a primary source of information and also as an inventive medium for communicating and sharing knowledge, enabling new relationships, collaborations, and intellectual communities. DLI-2 will also look to create domain applications and operational infrastructures and understand their use and usability in various organizational, economic, social, and international contexts. The NSF is a government agency. Frequently people get us mixed up with the National Academy of Sciences, so I just wanted to say that we are an Executive agency, very much in the same scheme of governmental management as other independent agencies. The organizational structure of NSF is that of a common bureaucracy.
Bureaucracies are easy to laugh about.
But they can seriously get in the way of getting things done, particularly in interdisciplinary programs. The Digital Libraries Initiative is the focus of my talk today. We have two phases Phase 1 and Phase 2, and I would like to present them both. Make no mistake, the Digital Libraries Initiative was an information technology program. We provided no money for content.