Digital Agenda for Europe: Digital Libraries Initiative

The Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation. The Recommendation asks the Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and make it available through Europeana. It thus addresses the further development of Europeana and issues related to the organisation and funding of digitisation, the online accessibility of public domain and in-copyright material as well as digital preservation in the Member States. It also spells out a number of key principles to ensure public-private partnerships for digitisation are fair and transparent.