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February 2004 Library Constructs GATT Digital Archive
A digital archive of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization's (WTO) predecessor that negotiated tariffs on world commerce from 1947 to 1994, has been produced by Stanford University Libraries. So far, 80 percent of about 2 million documents and hundreds of historic photographs have been scanned by Stanford students working summers at WTO headquarters in Switzerland under the library's direction. In return for permission to scan the materials, Stanford promised the WTO a set of digitized searchable files. Scholars, subject to approval from the WTO, have access through the university to the historical material on the rules governing trade between nations. For political science professor Judith Goldstein, the archive helped confirmed her belief that "trade is political from the top to the bottom. It's more about politics than it is about economics." |
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