European Commission unveils plans for European digital libraries

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To quote a press release dated today,

The European Commission today unveiled its strategy to make Europe’s written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet....The Commission proposes a concerted drive by EU Member States to digitise, preserve, and make this heritage available to all. It presents a first set of actions at European level and invites comments on a series of issues in an online consultation (deadline for replies 20 January 2006). The replies will feed into a proposal for a Recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation, to be presented in June 2006.