[InetBib] European digital libraries: Commission strategy & on-line consultation

["Harald Müller" <hmueller@xxxxxxx>]

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Dear Madam, dear Sir,
Today, the European Commission has published a Communication on a strategy for 
European digital libraries and an on-line consultation. We invite all who wish 
to express their opinions to follow the link below.

Please feel free to circulate this mail to other interested parties.

Thank you and best regards,
Manuela Speiser



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Manuela Speiser
European Commission
Communications Officer
Directorate-General Information Society and Media
Unit E3: Learning and Cultural Heritage
EUFO 1165A
L-2920 Luxembourg
Tel.: (00352) 4301-38256
Fax: (00352) 4301-33190
e-mail: manuela.speiser@xxxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/telearn-digicult/index.html



Press release:
Commission unveils plans for European digital libraries
The European Commission today unveiled its strategy to make Europeâ??s written 
and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet. Turning Europeâ??s historic 
and cultural heritage into digital content will make it usable for European 
citizens for their studies, work or leisure and will give innovators, artists 
and entrepreneurs the raw material that they need. The Commission proposes a 
concerted drive by EU Member States to digitise, preserve, and make this 
heritage available to all. It presents a first set of actions at European level 
and invites comments on a series of issues in an online consultation (deadline 
for replies 20 January 2006). The replies will feed into a proposal for a 
Recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation, to be presented in 
June 2006. (...)

Full of text of press release
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1202&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en

Link to the Communication and on-line consultation
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm


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Dr. Harald Müller

Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / 
Bibliothek
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law / Library
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535; D-69120 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 482 219; Fax: +49 6221 482 593
Mail: hmueller@xxxxxxx