[BOAI] Europeana Welcomes EU Support For More Content And Funding

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Dutch National Library.  --Peter Suber.]

The Hague, February 24, 2010

*Europeana Welcomes EU Support For More Content And Funding*

Europeana welcomes a report from the European Parliament’s Culture and
Education Committee, calling for more content and a sustainable
funding solution.

The report, which was unanimously approved by the Committee in a meeting on
February 22 and 23, urges governments and cultural institutions to work
together to speed up digitisation of their cultural heritage. It suggests
that the cost of digitisation should be the subject of a specific budget
line in the next Financial Framework.

The report also underlines that the digitisation of public domain content
should not create new copyright restrictions.

For more information, please see the press release from the European
Parliament<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/037-69352-054-02-09-906-20100223IPR69351-23-02-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm>
.

*Notes for editors*


   - *Europeana.eu is Europe’s digital library, museum and archive. Launched
   as a prototype in November 2008, it brings together nearly 6 million
   digitised items from Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage
   organisations.*
   - *Europeana’s fully operational service will launch later in 2010,
   giving access to 10 million items. This new content is coming in from a
   group of projects that are working with heritage organisations across
   Europe.*
   - *For further information contact:  Europeana: Jonathan Purday,
   jonathan.purday at bl.uk, 00 44 1937 546614*
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