Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
From the video news clip: In August, the European Commission urged the EU member states to step up efforts to digitise their cultural works and make them available online in a European digital library. Source: euronews See Also: Europe’s planned Digital Library: frequently asked questions (via PublicTechnology.net)
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
From the post: EuropeanaLocal is a project funded by the European Commission to “involve and help local and regional libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives” to provide access to their content through Europeana, the European Digital Library. Source: Open Access News
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
HONOR MAHONY The European Commission has urged member states to step up efforts to make Europe's cultural heritage available to citizens at a mouse click. Plans for a European digital library containing books, paintings, music, film and photographs are already...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
The European Commission has put a boatload of extra cash into Europeana, an ambitious project to digitize Europe’s cultural heritage for generations to come. The 120 million euro it will be investing in 2009-2010 will prove to be insufficient, so they’re calling on all member states in the European Union to reach for their (public [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
From the EUobserver: The European Commission has urged member states to step up efforts to make Europe’s cultural heritage available to citizens at a mouse click. Plans for a European digital library containing books, paintings, music, film and photographs are already underway but progress on making works digitally available has been slow with funding problems and lack [...]
News Of Techie (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Six million documents contain text, audio, video, photography and painting. The next November will open its doors expected European digital library. Customers will have an archive of six million text documents, audio, video, photography and painting, which have migrated from the shelves of libraries and museums across the European Union (EU) to the Network. This initiative [...]
hangingtogether.org (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
This year’s annual LIBER conference was held in Istanbul’s Koç University - a private university on the outskirts of the city. Ricky and I attended, and joined European librarians in jovial mood. A lot of attention in the European research library community at present is on Europeana, the European digital library which is being built [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
From the post: Van Gogh’s down at heel boots were the first thing to appear on the test website of the European digital library today. The website, branded Europeana, will break new ground by bringing together millions of digitised resources from Europe’s archives, museums, libraries and audio visual collections through a single portal. The site model was [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
The French National Library's programme to digitise billions of books and documents should widen their availability without violating copyright rules, the head of the library said.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/28/2007
The museums and libraries are now developing a new realism about striking a variety of alliances with private companies, including national deals with Google.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/28/2007
The museums and libraries are now developing a new realism about striking a variety of alliances with private companies, including national deals with Google.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
Other national libraries appear poised to cooperate in the venture, modeled on the Library of Congress's vast American Memory project.
