1. Mai 2010: Start des für eine Dauer von drei Jahren ausgelegten Projektes HOPE - Heritage of People's Europe
Die Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung beteiligt sich am Aufbau der Digitalen Bibliothek, des Digitalen Museums und Archivs Europas - EUROPEANA. Mit ihr werden vernetzte Infrastrukturen zur Digitalen Präsentation des kulturellen Erbes Europas im Internet entwickelt, wobei im Teilprojekt HOPE der Schwerpunkt auf der Integration von Inhalten und standardisierten Metadaten zur Sozialgeschichte liegt.
Der neue Bibliotheksmitarbeiter und IT-Entwickler, Herr Sebastian Vesper, wird sich für die Dauer von zwei Jahren um die Umsetzung der Projektziele kümmern.
HOPE is a Best Practice Network of archives, l...
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News der FES-Bibliothek - May 18, 2010
Europeana Publishes Public Domain Charter
The Europeana Foundation, the governing body of the Europeana service, has published its Public Domain Charter. The Europeana beta currently links users to around 6 million Digital objects. About 10 million Digital objects are expected to be available this year, when version 1.0 becomes operational.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
Today Europeana officially publishes the Public Domain Charter. It takes a strong position in support of the Public Domain, saying that:
Europeana belongs to the public and must represent the public interest. The Public Domain is the material from which society creates cultural unde...
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DigitalKoans - April 14, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Copyright Digital Libraries Mass Digitizaton Public Domain
Oxford University Press Launches New Librarian Newsletter, January, 2010 Issue Now Online
From the Announcement:
Oxford University Press has launched Illuminea, a new quarterly newsletter for academic librarians and information professionals. This publication will keep readers up-to-date with the latest developments at OUP and across the publishing world.
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Innovation is the underlying theme of the launch issue. The lead article looks at Oxford Bibliographies Online, a revolutionary resource tool, designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them towards useful books, chapters, journals, websites or databases. Its aim is to combine the best features of a research leve...
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ResourceShelf - January 15, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Information Industry Libraries and Librarianship
EU Takes a Few Steps in the Quicksand of Copyright Law in the Digital Age
From the Article:
The European Union has taken a few steps in the quicksand of copyright law in the Digital age.
It is still regulated by 27 different laws, one per country, which greatly complicates any effort to digitize cultural backgrounds and Internet advertising. Even the brand new Europeana, the European Digital Library, had to do the same as one of its collaborators in France and withdraw from the network part of its contents because it was authorized to make them available only to users of that country.
For that reason, the year 2010 promises to be richer in legislative initiatives in the field of Digital books. F...
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ResourceShelf - December 29, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digitization Projects Information Industry
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries (19.2, 2009) is Now Available
Liber Quarterly is an open access journal. Articles are full text.
Access the Latest Issue of Liber Quarterly (19.2)
Articles Include:
+ The EU-funded EuropeanaTravel Project
by Paul Ayris
EuropeanaTravel is a targeted project for cultural content in the target area Digital libraries of the eContentplus 2008 Work Programme funded by the European Commission.[1] Its overall objective is to digitise content on the theme of travel and tourism for use in Europeana[2] as requested by the EDL Foundation.[3] The themed content will come from the wonderful collections of major university libraries and national libraries. The proje...
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ResourceShelf - December 8, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digital Preservation Info Management and Retrieval Information Industry Libraries and Librarianship Technology and Internet
Europe: Eastern Librairies Come to Brussels; More About Europeana
From the Article:
Europeana, the European Digital Library, is the aggregator of European cultural content. Interoperability is at the heart of what Europeana is doing: integrating format types across borders, across domains and between institutions. Museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual (AV) collections have different histories, user-groups and purposes. These are reflected in their diverse approaches to cataloguing and the development of varying standards. The result is that delivering all content types in the same online space requires a commitment to working collaboratively and sharing knowledge across long-esta...
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ResourceShelf - November 22, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digitization Projects Libraries and Librarianship
French Prime Minister Endorses Google Bibliotheque Nationale Plan
From the Article:
French Prime Minister François Fillon has endorsed the idea that Google might digitise some books and documents of the French National Library. Closing a government seminar on the Digital economy last week, he said that “Google is not a problem, but a challenge”. Fillon dismissed the recent uproar over reports that the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) [English Web Site] was in negotiations with Google. “It would be shocking if it (the BNF) were not doing so,” he declared. …
During a roundtable chaired by Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand, Google France chief Mats Car...
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ResourceShelf - September 15, 2009 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digitization Projects Information Industry
French Prime Minister endorses Google Bibliotheque Nationale plan
So says the Bookseller today. That’s the Bibliotheque—the French national library—in the picture.
French Prime Minister François Fillon has endorsed the idea that Google might digitise some books and documents of the French National Library. Closing a government seminar on the Digital economy last week, he said that "Google is not a problem, but a challenge". Fillon dismissed the recent uproar over reports that the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) was in negotiations with Google. "It would be shocking if it (the BNF) were not doing so," he declared. …
During a roundtable ...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 14, 2009 Author: Paul Biba Tags: E-books and all that Europe France Google Google Book Search Paul Biba e-book economics e-book technology e-books and other digipubs ebook publishing ebooks libraries libraries schools tech library
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Google Book Search Deal?
According to an 8/18/09 article in La Tribune, "Google en Négociation avec la Bibliothèque Nationale de France," the BnF was negotiating a deal with Google to digitize its collection.
Amid a brewing controversy about the alleged deal, the BnF issued a press release to clarify the issue.
Here's an excerpt from the press release (translated using Google Translate):
Following a news item published in Tuesday August 18 The Tribune, the BnF wishes to clarify that it has not signed an agreement with Google for digitization of its collection. The Library has never ruled out a private partnership would be ...
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DigitalKoans - August 20, 2009 Author: admin
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Google Book Search Deal?
According to an 8/18/09 article in La Tribune, "Google en Négociation avec la Bibliothèque Nationale de France," the BnF was negotiating a deal with Google to digitize its collection.
Amid a brewing controversy about the alleged deal, the BnF issued a press release to clarify the issue.
Here's an excerpt from the press release (translated using Google Translate):
Following a news item published in Tuesday August 18 The Tribune, the BnF wishes to clarify that it has not signed an agreement with Google for digitization of its collection. The Library has never ruled out a private partnership would be ...
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DigitalKoans - August 19, 2009 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Copyright E-Books Google and Other Search Engines Libraries Mass Digitizaton Publishing
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Google Book Search Deal?
According to an 8/18/09 article in La Tribune, "Google en Négociation avec la Bibliothèque Nationale de France," the BnF was negotiating a deal with Google to digitize its collection.
Amid a brewing controversy about the alleged deal, the BnF issued a press release to clarify the issue.
Here's an excerpt from the press release (translated using Google Translate):
Following a news item published in Tuesday August 18 The Tribune, the BnF wishes to clarify that it has not signed an agreement with Google for digitization of its collection. The Library has never ruled out a private partnership would be ...
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DigitalKoans - August 19, 2009 Author: admin Tags: Copyright E-Books Libraries Mass Digitization Publishing Search Engines
Google to digitize French national library -- or is it?
Daniel Cressey, French library denies ‘Google seduction’ claims, The Great Beyond, August 19, 2009.
France’s national library has been forced to deny rumours that it has sold out to Google over digitization, and thus ended protracted resistance to perceived cultural imperialism.
“Following a news item published Tuesday 18 August in La Tribune, the [Bibliothèque Nationale de France] wishes to clarify that it has not signed an agreement with Google for the digitization of its collection,” says the library.
However, it adds that, “The Library has never ruled out a private partnership that would be consistent w...
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Open Access News - August 19, 2009 Author: Gavin Baker
EuropeanaConnect
"EuropeanaConnect is a project funded by the European Commission within the area of Digital Libraries of the eContentplus Programme. Its overall objective is to develop key components for the enhancement and improvement of Europeana, the European Digital Library. Thanks to the work of EuropeanaConnect, Europeana will become a truly interoperable, multilingual and user-oriented service for all European citizens. EuropeanaConnect will also add to Europeana the music dimension, by making available through Europeana a substantial mass of audio content"
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - August 6, 2009
Resource of the Week: Europeana
Resource of the Week: Europeana
By Adrian Janes, UK Contributing Editor
Europeana is an ambitious collaborative project between European archives, libraries and museums. First launched in November 2008, the initial interest was so great that it overwhelmed the site. The current version is described as a prototype, with the full-scale launch now expected in 2010. But even at this stage, it is a most interesting resource, claiming currently to provide access to four million Digital items but anticipating this to have grown to 10 million by next year.
The types of items collected in Europeana are in the broad categories ...
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ResourceShelf - April 20, 2009 Author: ResourceShelf Tags: Archives and Special Collections Arts and Humanities Databases, Directories, and Guides Museums & Online Exhibits Resource of the Week Resources for Educators Source File
25 million Euros allocated to European Digital libraries
I guess today is Europe day for postings. The following is from DigitalKoans:
Here’s an excerpt from “European Commission CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme: Digital Libraries Information Day, Luxembourg, 17th February 2009.”
A budget of 25 million euros is allocated to Digital libraries in the 2009 call. The main goals of this call are contributing to Europeana (the European Digital Library) and maximizing the impact of European research results. The specific objectives are:
* Developing services to improve the usability of Europeana
* Aggregating content for Europeana
* Digiti...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - February 19, 2009 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Europe European Commission Paul Biba libraries library
Report on EU Digital libraries meeting
JISC's Kate Fernie has posted a report on the EU's Information Day on the third Call for Proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme on Digital libraries (Luxembourg, February 17, 2009); see also this blog post. From the report:
... A budget of 25 million euros is allocated to Digital libraries in the 2009 call. The main goals of this call are contributing to Europeana (the European Digital Library) and maximizing the impact of European research results. The specific objectives are:
Developing services to improve the usability of Europeana
Aggregating content for Europeana
Digitising content for Europeana
Open access ...
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Open Access News - February 19, 2009 Author: Gavin Baker
European Commission Allocates 25 Million Euros for Digital Libraries
The European Commission CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme has allocated 25 million euros for Digital libraries in 2009.
Here's an excerpt from "European Commission CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme: Digital Libraries Information Day, Luxembourg, 17th February 2009."
A budget of 25 million euros is allocated to Digital libraries in the 2009 call. The main goals of this call are contributing to Europeana (the European Digital Library) and maximizing the impact of European research results. The specific objectives are:
Developing services to improve the usability of Europeana
Aggregating content for Europeana
Di...
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DigitalKoans - February 19, 2009 Author: Charles Bailey
Que pourra MultiMatch?
MultiMatch, moteur de recherche de l’Union européenne, devrait être dans un avenir proche le complément idéal d’Europeana, la grande Bibliothèque numérique européenne.
Nous avons pu évoquer récemment le portail multilingue de recherche du patrimoine numérisé Michael, déjà disponible au public : a contrario, MultiMatch, prototypal, devrait rester confidentiel dans les mois à venir.
Le Journal du net, pour sa part, parle de "Google culturel" et précise que la recherche pourra se faire en six langues, en agrégeant trois champs d’exploitation : patrimoine culturel, tourisme et éd...
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Tour de Toile du BBF - January 15, 2009 Author: Jeremy Jeanguenin Tags: biblioth èques numériques et numérisation
Search Engine Wrap-up January 1st 2009
Pandia Wishes You a Happy New Year!
(…and gives you a few of the recent search engine headlines from around the web):
5 (More) Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should
How would you like to track hot news geographically? Or see where social conversations are happening on a map? (SE Land Dec 29 2008)
Predictions 08: How Did I Do?
Search engine expert John Battelle reviews his predictions (Dec 30 2008)
50 Most Memorable Moments in Search for 2008
Search Engine Watch has the list (Dec 31 2008)
Rumor: Marissa Mayer, Google’s 19th Employee, To Leave
Marissa Mayer is one of the most public figures that Google ha...
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Pandia Search Engine News - January 1, 2009 Author: Per and Susanne Koch Tags: All (summaries)
New European Digital library
Mollie Pherson, Regional LibrarianI was catching up with my Post-Bulletin reading the other day when an article really caught my eye. A new Digital library called Europeana has been created that is set to rival Google, focusing on European art, history, and literature. Thousands of items from over 1,000 museums, national libraries, galleries and archives (including the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre) have been collected. The project was started over two years ago, and most of the information is free to download. For more information, check out the article by clicking here.An interesting fact? The website was launche...
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SELCO Librarian - December 3, 2008 Author: mpherson
European Digital library Launches, Promptly Crashes
More than ten million hits per hour stymied the Europeana site, which won't be back up until mid-December.
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Library Journal News - December 2, 2008
Europeana + 10mill Hits Per Hour = Crash
The Wired Campus has reported that 'too many people are excited about Europeana, a pan-European Digital library, archive, and museum. Last week, when the project’s prototype Web site debuted, it got 10 million hits per hour — and crashed.'Europeana currently has over 2 million Digital objects, including film, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers, and it's multilingual, currently offering objects in French, English and German. The plan is to have over 6 million objects available by 2010, and to increase the language selections.Europeana have issued a press release, outlin...
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Your Library@CSU - November 28, 2008 Author: infolib
Europeana : 3 petits tours, et puis ...
La bibliothèque européenne, Europeana a donc été lancée le 20 Novembre (communiqué de presse.pdf). Europeana se compose actuellement de "2 millions de documents, dont des livres, des cartes, des peintures et
des photographies, provenant des bibliothèques nationales et de plus de
1 000 institutions culturelles des 27 pays de l’Union européenne." Et Viviane Redding, dans le sus-mentionné communiqué de presse, lui fixe un objectif de 10 millions de documents en 2010. Pour bien comprendre le contexte et les enjeux, un artcle de Bruno Texier fait le point dans Archimag :
"2,5 milliards de livres cons...
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affordance.info - November 23, 2008 Author: olivierertzscheid Tags: Biblio Tech Google Print/Books Moteurs et autres engins
Europeana crashes due to its popularity
In a project that I am sure is close to David’s heart, Europeana opened on November 20. Here is the object of the site, as stated on its Web site:
Europeana – the European Digital Library, museum and archive – is a 2-year project that began in July 2007. It will produce a prototype website giving users direct access to some 2 million Digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. The prototype will be launched in November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
The Digital content will ...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - November 21, 2008 Author: Paul Biba Tags: David Rothman Library of the Future Paul Biba Digital libraries
Ouverture de la Bibliothèque Numérique européenne "europeana" (SOURCES D'INFORMATION)
La Bibliothèque numérique européenne "Europeana" a été officiellement ouverte ce 21 novembre 2008. Disposant d'une interface multilingue (français, anglais et allemand dans un premier temps), elle propose l'accès à plus de 2 millions de documents provenant des principales institutions culturelles européennes.
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EchosDoc : actualité de l' I. & D. - November 20, 2008
European online library launches
From the article:
The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making contributions to a European online library.
The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre Museum.
Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films.
These will be sourced from institutions across the EU’s member states.
Source: BBC
Direct to European Digital Library
See Also: Learn More About Europeana
Backround, contact info, and history.
Source: BBC
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ResourceShelf - November 20, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digital Repositories Digitization Projects Libraries and Librarianship Search News Technology and Internet
Lançamento da Biblioteca Digital Europeia - EUROPEANA
Bruxelas, Biblioteca Nacional da Bélgica | 20 Novembro 2008 Sob o lema Pensar Cultura, o protótipo da Biblioteca Digital Europeia - Europeana.eu – é hoje, 20 de Novembro de 2008, colocado em linha, oferecendo acesso a mais de 2 milhões de objectos digitais de 27 países europeus – imagens, textos, registos de som e vídeo - entre os quais se conta o acervo Digital da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, parceiro do Projecto. A cerimónia de lançamento, a decorrer na Biblioteca Nacional da Bélgica, conta com a presença do Presidente da Comissão Europeia, da Comissária Europeia para a Sociedade de Informação e ...
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A "INFORMAÇÃO" - November 20, 2008 Tags: i2010 Europeana Biblioteca Digital Europeia Biblioteca Nacional
Europeana has been launched
Europeana, the European Digital Library, opens to the public today. The on-line service offers users around the world access to more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States. Europeana is the result of a series of projects funded by the European Commission and has a strong support of the European Parliament. The service is run by the European Digital Library Foundation, which brings together Europe's major associations of libraries, archives, museums, audiovisual archives and cultural institu...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - November 20, 2008
BBC NEWS | Europe | European online library launches
BBC NEWS | Europe | European online library launches.
The British Library is among many institutions contributing
The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making contributions to a European online library.
The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre Museum.
Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films.
These will be sourced from institutions across the EU's member states.
Further expansion for the project, which was created by ...
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DrWeb's Domain - November 20, 2008 Author: DrWeb Tags: Library
L'Ina, partenaire d'Europeana
Europeana est inaugurée aujourd'hui 20 novembre 2008 par Viviane Reding, commissaire européen chargée de la société de l'information et des médias.
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel, fournisseur de contenus pour le projet de grande Bibliothèque numérique européenne, est partenaire d'Europeana et assure par ailleurs la responsabilité du groupe de travail "usages et utilisateurs".
A l'occasion de cette inauguration, il réaffirme son rôle de leader en matière de contenus audiovisuels numérisés dans ce communiqué.
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Tour de Toile du BBF - November 20, 2008 Author: Jeremy Jeanguenin Tags: actualit é des bibliothèques
