The morning keynote at CIL 2007 by John Van Oudenaren, Senior Advisor, World Digital Library (WDL) Initiative, Library of Congress, ended with a great video of what we might expect down the road. He talked about the initiation of the initiative in 2005, the $3 million support from Google to create a plan for the WDL, the prototype to be unveiled later this year and the completion of the WDL plan in September 2008. Imgine being able to search world cultural assets in 7 languages and interacting with the WDL in an engaging way. Keep tuned for the plan which is thinking big!

