<font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from the Dutch National Library. --Peter Suber.]<br><br></font></font></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="#606420">
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The Hague, February 24, 2010</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Europeana Welcomes EU Support For More
Content And Funding</font></span></font></b></span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Europeana welcomes a report from the
European Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee, calling for more
content and a sustainable funding solution. </font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
report also underlines that the digitisation of public domain content should
not create new copyright restrictions. </font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For
more information, please see the </font><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/037-69352-054-02-09-906-20100223IPR69351-23-02-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">press
release from the European Parliament</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">.</font></span></font></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Notes for editors</font></span></font></b></span></font></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Europeana.eu</font></span></font></b><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> 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.</font></font></span></font></span></font></b></li><li><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.</font></font></span></font></span></font></b></li><li><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For further
information contact: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Europeana: Jonathan Purday, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><a href="mailto:jonathan.purday@bl.uk" title="blocked::mailto:jonathan.purday@bl.uk" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">jonathan.purday@bl.uk</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">, 00 44 1937 546614</font></span></font></font></span></font></span></font></b></span></font></font></span></font></span></font></b></span></font></font></span></font></span></font></b></span></font></font></span></font></span></font></b></li>
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