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<font size=3>[Forwarding from Europeana Communications. --Peter
Suber.]<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The European Commission has
released a communication about the next steps for Europeana and
digitisation in Europe:<br>
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=5181">
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=5181</a>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>It sets the target for items
in Europeana at 10 million for 2010, and also addresses the low level of
digitisation in Europe and the disparities in copyright legislation
across the Member States. <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The press release is
available in all languages of the European Union
<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1257&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1257&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en</a>
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<a href="mailto:Jonathan.purday@kb.nl">Jonathan.purday@kb.nl</a><br>
Europeana communications<br>
00 31 [0] 70 314 0684<br>
<a href="http://www.europeana.eu/">www.europeana.eu</a><br>
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