INFORMATION SOCIETY: COMMISSION PLANS TO PUT CULTURAL HERITAGE ON THE NET.

PositionEuropean Commission - Brief Article

The popularity of current on-line resources, such as the French national library's Gallica site and Google's planned digital library project, have demonstrated the public's appetite for discovering their heritage on-line. Improving the accessibility of information is seen as key for developing Europe's "knowledge economy", and the digital library strategy is therefore a flagship project of the i2010 initiative to foster growth and jobs in the information society and media industries. The strategy covers three main issues: digitisation of content; on-line accessibility of this content; digital preservation of content for future generations.

The "digital library" is not planned as one site or digital structure, but rather as an integrated system of national collections. Nor will the library be exhaustive: with...

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