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News from the European Library and beyond
Last week, the Russian State Library joined the European Library. According to the new blog TELL Fleur, which chronicles happenings at the European Library:As a result users of www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org will be able to search and retrieve material from the national library of Russia-Moscow. The European Library is a service of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL).TELL Fleur points out that the European Library is not the same as the European Digital Library that is now under development. However, Ms. Fleur Stigter writes that "the European Library is the organisational ground for the European Digital l...
Source: Digitization 101 - August 20, 2007 Author: Jill Hurst-Wahl Tags: Digital library

Europe: Parliamentarians call for more books to be put online
The European Parliament has asked the Commission to speed up the process of setting up a European Digital Library, which aims to become a one-stop shop for accessing literary and scientific works online. Source: EuroActiv.com Thanks to Kevin A. for the news tip. See Also: European Libraries Stakeholders Gather for Seminar See Also: European Commission: Digital Libraries Initiative: Summary Minutes of the High Level Group on Digital Libraries See Also: We Have Liftoff: The European Digital Library Gets Underway See Also: New Version of European Digital Library Portal Now Online, Open Access to European Library Handbook �...
Source: ResourceShelf - October 2, 2007 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Search News Digitization Projects Libraries and Librarianship

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BnF) Gallica Collection Will Become Part of European Digital library
European Digital Library grows after new French Contribution The Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) helped the European Digital Library move a step closer to the goal of a fully comprehensive European collection of cultural heritage after announcing the development of their new Europeana portal. According to the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) the BnF managed to raise funds as well as provide a possible template of what a future European Digital Library may be. The funding will now allow the digitisation and uploading of an additional 80-100,000 items each year from the BnF’s Gallica collection. See...
Source: ResourceShelf - March 26, 2007 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Databases and Directories Archives and Special Collections Digitization Projects Resources for Educators Search News

Progress on The European Library
Bigger European Digital Library? Tell me more! Euractiv, December 11, 2006. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt: More than six million books, documents and other culturally significant works should become available online in the new European Digital Library during the next five years, thanks to the information society technologies (IST) programme TEL-ME-MOR.... With the project due to complete its objectives by the end of January 2007, TEL-ME-MOR is well on the way to achieving its objectives. Content from eight out of the ten newly included national libraries has already been integrated into the ...
Source: Open Access News - December 14, 2006 Author: Peter Suber

Short notice: One more step towards the European Digital library international conference, 31 January and 1 February 02008
The European Digital Library is holding an international conference, One more step towards the European Digital Library, on 31 January and 1 February 02008 at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Except for getting there and other living expenses while visiting, there is no cost to participate.
Source: The Ten Thousand Year Blog - January 18, 2008 Author: David Tags: Announcements for Digital Culture Conferences, Seminars Archives and Libraries Digital Libraries and Collections

Niggemann Vorsitzende der European Digital library Foundation
Wie das Börsenblatt berichtet übernimmt die Generaldirektorin der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek, Elisabeth Niggemann, den Vorsitz der European Digital Library Foundation. Die von der Konferenz der Europäischen Nationalbibliothekare (CENL) gegründete Stiftung soll die Kooperation kultureller Einrichtungen Europas fördern und deren Kulturgüter Digital verfügbar zu machen. Share This
Source: Infobib - December 11, 2007 Author: NU Tags: Bibliothek Digitalisierung CENL elisabeth-niggemann European Digital Library foundation

Video on the European Digital library
European Digital Library to contain all knowledge, a video news story from Futuris, January 19, 2008. The Futuris blurb: In Europe, the race is on to digitise our cultural heritage. The goal is to create a European Digital Library containing all our cultural knowledge, accessible to everyone, preserved for ever. But is this the end of the traditional book?
Source: Open Access News - January 20, 2008 Author: Peter Suber

Video News Clip: The European Digital library
From the video news clip: In August, the European Commission urged the EU member states to step up efforts to digitise their cultural works and make them available online in a European Digital Library. Source: euronews See Also: Europe’s planned Digital Library: frequently asked questions (via PublicTechnology.net)
Source: ResourceShelf - August 26, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Libraries and Librarianship Search News

European Digital library Prototype Launches
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has launched a prototype of the European Digital Library (Europeana). Here’s an excerpt from "France Launches Francophone Digital Library": Europeana—as the cyber library is named—currently offers access to some 12,000 public domain full-text documents but is set to have by 2010 over 6 million books, movies, photographs and other documents from across the European Union countries. . . . "We want to make it so that Europe is not entirely abandoned to an American search engine," said Jean-Noël Jeanneney, the head of BNF, according to Fren...
Source: DigitalKoans - April 3, 2007 Author: Charles Tags: Digital Libraries E-Books

Update on the European Digital library
Daniel Griffin, Workshop pieces together European Library digitisation project, Information World Review, December 19, 2006. Excerpt: In an initiative launched through the European Digital Library Project (EDLProject), representatives from the European Community’s (EC) various eContentPlus funded programmes which are designed to create easier and improved access to Digital collections, have gathered for a workshop held at the Austrian National Library. The workshop was intended to begin the process of building the European Digital Library. Remarking on the initiative, Hans Petschar, the director of the Austrian ...
Source: Open Access News - December 21, 2006 Author: Peter Suber

European Digital library Suggests Model License to Cover Orphan Works
A European Union “High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries,” including stakeholders from the British Library, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Federation of European Publishers, and Google, has prepared an advisory report suggesting a voluntary license scheme to deal with copyright issues hampering the progress of library digitization efforts.
Source: Library Journal News - April 24, 2007

Collections Added to European Digital library Portal
Discover the treasures behind the 67 new collections integrated in The European Library portal during the EDLproject. Source: European Digital Library
Source: ResourceShelf - June 3, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

EU Parliament calls for more OA books
Parliamentarians call for more books to be put online, EurActiv, September 27, 2007. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Excerpt: The European Parliament has asked the Commission to speed up the process of setting up a European Digital Library, which aims to become a one-stop shop for accessing literary and scientific works online.... Digital libraries are essential for enabling scholars and students to access the rapidly growing number of scientific publications worldwide, as well as ensuring the accessibility of Europe's cultural heritage.... In a resolution adopted on 27 September 2007, the European Parli...
Source: Open Access News - October 5, 2007 Author: Peter Suber

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...
Source: DigitalKoans - February 19, 2009 Author: Charles Bailey

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"
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog - August 6, 2009

i2010: towards a European Digital library
Resolução do Parlamento Europeu (non-legislative) de 27 Setembro 2007 sobre “i2010: towards a European Digital Library” (adoptado por 481 votos a favor, 26 contra e 3 abstenções)
Source: o bibliotecário 2.0 (β) - October 25, 2007 Author: Julio Anjos

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...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - February 19, 2009 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Europe European Commission Paul Biba libraries library

Member states drag feet on European Digital library
From the EUobserver: The European Commission has urged member states to step up efforts to make Europe’s cultural heritage available to citizens at a mouse click. Plans for a European Digital Library containing books, paintings, music, film and photographs are already underway but progress on making works Digitally available has been slow with funding problems and lack of technical know-how dragging the ambitious project down. According to commission figures, European libraries contain over 2.5 billion books but only around 1 percent of archival material has been made available online. Source: EUobserver
Source: ResourceShelf - August 12, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digital Repositories Digitization Projects Libraries and Librarianship Search News

European Digital library Update
From the web site: In response to the Commission Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and Digital preservation, the Education, Youth and Culture Council adopted at its 13 November 2006 meeting conclusions showing the commitment of Member States to work together towards the European Digital Library. The Conclusions indicate what priority actions [...]
Source: ResourceShelf - November 21, 2006 Author: resourceshelf

European Digital library Initiative releases interim report on copyright
This report deals with three broad sets of copyright issues relevant to digitization (orphan works, out of print works and Digital preservation) and recommends specific actions be taken allow the development of the European Digital Library to proceed.
Source: digitizationblog - November 30, 2006 Author: mark Tags: Rights Mngt

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 ...
Source: DrWeb's Domain - November 20, 2008 Author: DrWeb Tags: Library

European Libraries Have Digitalization Problems
The European Digital Library, created to counter Google's Digitalization efforts and promote the Digitalization of European texts, is facing problems due to something that librarians everywhere will have no problem understanding. They're running short of funds. Tasked with the creation of Digital collections, the 80 institutions involved face a massive job with little government backing. More from the International Herald Tribune.Read more of this story at LISNews.org.
Source: LISNews.org - October 30, 2007 Author: Great Western Dragon Tags: mainpage

EuropeanaLocal to expand participation in European Digital library
From the post: EuropeanaLocal is a project funded by the European Commission to “involve and help local and regional libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives” to provide access to their content through Europeana, the European Digital Library. Source: Open Access News
Source: ResourceShelf - August 20, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Info Management and Retrieval Information Industry Search News

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
Source: ResourceShelf - November 20, 2008 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Digital Repositories Digitization Projects Libraries and Librarianship Search News Technology and Internet

Presentations on the European Digital library
The presentations from the First EDLproject Workshop on developing the European Digital Library (Vienna, November 27-28, 2006) are now online.
Source: Open Access News - December 18, 2006 Author: Peter Suber

EuropeanaLocal to expand participation in European Digital library
EuropeanaLocal is a project funded by the European Commission to "involve and help local and regional libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives" to provide access to their content through Europeana, the European Digital Library. The project started on June 1, 2008. A kick-off meeting was held on June 25-26. See also our past posts on Europeana.
Source: Open Access News - August 19, 2008 Author: Gavin Baker

We Have Liftoff: The European Digital library
We Have Liftoff: The European Digital Library Museums, Archives, Audio-visual Archives and Libraries start their cross domain collaboration to create the European Digital Library this month with the start of EDLnet. EDLnet will deliver cross-domain collaboration and prototypes for stakeholder and user comment. EDLnet is a Thematic Network under the eContentPlus Progamme, run by The European Library together with the National Library of the Netherlands. The network will work on the human and political as well as the technical and semantic issues to create an interoperable system able to access fully digitized content from t...
Source: ResourceShelf - June 7, 2007 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Libraries and Librarianship Digitization Projects Digital Repositories Digital Preservation Search News

Copyright Deal Clears Way for European Digital library, April 2007
"An EU expert group on Digital libraries has agreed to a basic model for handling copyrights for Digitalized cultural publications in libraries. The break-through deal is part of the European Dig...
Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet - May 4, 2007

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