[BOAI] Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Virginie Sold.  --Peter Suber.]


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   *Digicult
      NEWS from the European Commission, Digital Preservation and Access to
      Cultural Resources*

   *Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation*

   The Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and
   Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool
   their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material
   and make it available through Europeana.

   In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to:

   -       put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation
   and foster public-private partnerships to share the gigantic cost of
   digitisation (recently estimated at 100 billion EUR). The Recommendation
   spells out key principles to ensure that such partnerships are fair and
   balanced.

   -       make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015,
   including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by
   copyright, and all material digitised with public funding.

   -       get more in-copyright material online, by, for example, creating
   the legal framework conditions enabling large-scale digitisation and
   cross-border accessibility of out-of-commerce works.

   -       reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure
   long-term preservation of digital material, by, for example, ensuring the
   material deposited is not protected by technical measures that impede
   librarians from preserving it.

   The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted in
   2006. It takes account of Member States progress reports from 2008 and
   2010, which show, that although progress has been made, more and better
   action is needed as regards financial resources, quantitative targets for
   digitisation and solid support for Europeana. It also builds on the
   conclusions of the* 'Comité des Sages'* on bringing Europe's cultural
   heritage online, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010.

   *Useful links:*

   -       The Commission' s press release on the Recommendation

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   http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
   *<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en>

   -       The text of the Recommendation in English, French and German

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   http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm
   *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm>
   -       Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum: *
   http://www.europeana.eu/portal/* <http://www.europeana.eu/portal/>
   -       "*Comité des Sages*" on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage
   On-line:
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   http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm
   *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm>

   -       Member States progress reports can be found on the digital
   libraries website:

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   http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm
   *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm>

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