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18 Jan 2011

Accessibility of European cultural Heritage: Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Digitisation and on-line accessibility are two of the keywords in Europeana's future Strategic Plan...

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11 Jan 2011

EU recommendations on digitisation of European cultural heritage

Europeana to become the central reference point for Europe's on-line cultural heritage...

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15 Sep 2010

EUscreen Conference: call for participation

The EUscreen conference will focus on contextualisation of audiovisual material, copyright and digitisation of audiovisual heritage...

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23 Aug 2010

Digitisation, accessibility and preservation of European cultural heritage

A public consultation on digitisation on-line accessibility and preservation of cultural heritage has been launched by the European Commission...

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12 Jul 2010

3 Million orphan works exist in Europe - EC report issued

The European Commission has recently published a report on European orphan works. At least 3 million orphan works exist in Europe ...

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21 May 2010

Europeana, the next steps

A European Parliament's Resolution on Europeana addresses, amongst other things, key issues such as digital libraries' copyright, accessibility of digital resources and digitisation of cultural material...

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26 Apr 2010

Accessibility of digital resources

A EC Reflection Group will come up with recommendations on best ways of boosting digitisation, on-line accessibility of digital resources in Europe...

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29 Mar 2010

Library digitisation of cultural material. Digital libraries' copyright

Within the framework of the EU Spanish Presidency, a seminar is organised on 12-14 April on Library digitisation and digital libraries' copyright with a focus on The European Library...

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25 Feb 2010

More Member States should contribute content to Europeana:

Europeana needs more digital content from Member States; it should provide access to in-copyright, out-of-print and orphan works, says the Culture and Education Committee in a report unanimously approved this week...

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23 Dec 2009

EU will fund projects to increase Europeana digital resources and facilitate access to European rights information and registry of orphan works

The ICT Policy Support Programme for 2010 will fund, amongst others, projects to enhance and increase the number of digital resources in Europeana, to facilitate access to European rights information and registry of orphan works...

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12 Nov 2009

DISH 2009: 8-10 December

What roles do cultural heritage institutions have in a networked society? This is just one of the key questions which will be addressed at the DISH Conference in Rotterdam...

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24 Sep 2009

European Commission 's Communication 'Europeana - next steps': more public domain resources and in copyright materials, increased accessibility of digital resources

The European Commission's main challenges for the coming years regard the enriching of Europeana's digital content with both public domain resources and in copyright material of the highest quality and relevance to users, a sustainable financing and governance model and the increasing of on-line accessibility of cultural heritage resources ...

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07 Sep 2009

News from the film archive sector

The European Film Gateway project (EFG) has released the second issue of its newsletter...

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28 Aug 2009

Public consultation on the future of Europeana and European digital resources: digitisation of books, orphan works and copyright

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the future of Europeana, the portal providing access to European digital resources...

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