Well-Designed Digital Libraries (WDDLs)

Well-Designed Digital Libraries, based on Subjects Areas: 

• Geography (4.1316)

  • NASA's Visible Earth

  • Census Atlas of the United States

  • David Rumsey Map Collection

• Medicine (3.5571)

  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services HHS.gov

  • National library of medicine

  • AMA (American Medical Association)

  • Children’s Medical Center

• Military science (3.496)

  • United States Department of Defense

  • US Military Academy Digital Collections

• Political science, and law (3.4524)

  • GPO Access

  • Civil RIghts Digital Library

  • THOMAS

• Science (3.4454)

  • National Science Foundation

  • National science Digital Library

  • U.S. Department of Energy

  • Public Library of Science

• Agriculture (3.3849)

  • Western Waters Digital Library

  • Core Historical Literature of Agriculture in Cornell University

• Arts (3.3577)

  • William Blake Archive

  • NYPL Digital Gallery

• Language and literature (3.2733)

  • International children’s Digital Library

  • Southeast Asia Digital Library (SADL)

• World History and history of Europe (3.254)

  • British Library Online Gallery

• Technology (3.2505)

  • Dspace@MIT

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • JSC Digital Image Collection

• History of the America (3.0743)

  • The National Archives Online Exhibits

  • Library of Congress: Historic Newspapers

  • University of California Digital library- calisphere

  • American Journeys

  • Library of Congress: American History & Culture

  • Documenting the American South

• Education (2.6131)

  • The National Library of Education

• Social Sciences (2.2341)

  • The National Archives, Education Resources, UK

Unfortunately, in Music and books on music, and Philosophy, psychology and religion subject areas, there are no WDDLs. Thus, in 13 out of 15 subject areas, 34 out of 62 digital libraries turn out as well-designed digital libraries. 

The Well-Designed Digital Libraries, based on Scores