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<font color="#008080" size="2" face="Tahoma">NEWS from the European Commission,</font><font face="Times New Roman"></font> <font color="#008080" size="2" face="Tahoma">Digital Preservation and Access to Cultural Resources</font></span></b><span lang="fr-be"></span>
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<p><span lang="fr-be"><b><font color="#000080" face="Tahoma">Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation</font></b><font face="Tahoma"> </font></span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">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.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to:</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- 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.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- 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.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- 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.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- 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.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">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<i> 'Comité des Sages'</i> on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010.</font></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><u><b><font face="Times New Roman">Useful links:</font></b></u></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- The Commission' s press release on the Recommendation</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-gb"></span><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Times New Roman">http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="fr-be"></span><span lang="en-gb"></span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- The text of the Recommendation in English, French and German</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-gb"></span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Times New Roman">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="fr-be"></span>
<br><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum: </font></span><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/" target="_blank"><span lang="fr-be"></span><span lang="fr-be"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Times New Roman">http://www.europeana.eu/portal/</font></u></span><span lang="fr-be"></span></a><span lang="fr-be"></span>
<br><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- "</font></span><span lang="fr-be"><i><font face="Times New Roman">Comité des Sages</font></i><font face="Times New Roman">" on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage On-line:</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-gb"></span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Times New Roman">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm</font></u></span><span lang="en-gb"></span></a><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span lang="fr-be"><font face="Times New Roman">- Member States progress reports can be found on the digital libraries website:</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="fr-be"></span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="fr-be"></span><span lang="fr-be"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Times New Roman">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm</font></u></span><span lang="fr-be"></span></a><span lang="fr-be"></span>
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<br><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000080" size="1" face="Verdana">Unit E3: Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning</font></span><span lang="fr-be"></span>
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