Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:50:17 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [152.3.68.76] (HELO [10.61.35.65]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.5) with ESMTPS id 13814478 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:44:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:53:04 -0800 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: European Union New Renaissance Report on Digitizing Cultural Heritage Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-917278426==_ma============" --============_-917278426==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There's a very nice new report available from the=20 wonderfully named " Comit=E9 des Sages" (High=20 Level Reflection Group on Bringing Europe's=20 Cultural Heritage Online) titled "The New=20 Renaissance". The report can be downloaded here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/ref= lection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf and there's a press release at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=3DIP/11/17&format=3D= HTML&aged=3D0&language=3Den&guiLang The report deals with a wide range of funding and=20 policy issues involved in digitizing cultural=20 heritage materials and sustaining access to these=20 materials. It makes some strong proposals about=20 conditions that should be attached to public=20 funding for digitization and for public-private=20 partnerships, as well as for priorities in=20 dealing with problems in the intellectual=20 property system. Some of this material has rich=20 connections with the work that the Association of=20 Research LIbraries Special Colllections Task=20 =46orce has been doing over the past year. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI --============_-917278426==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable European Union New Renaissance Report on Digitizing Cultur
There's a very nice new report available from the wonderfully named " Comit=E9  des Sages" (High Level Reflection Group on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage Online) titled "The New Renaissance". The report can be downloaded here:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf

and there's a press release at

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=3DIP/11/17&format=3DHTML&aged=3D0&language=3Den&guiLang

The report deals with a wide range of funding and policy issues involved in digitizing cultural heritage materials and sustaining access to these materials.  It makes some strong proposals about conditions that should be attached to public funding for digitization and for public-private partnerships, as well as for priorities in dealing with problems in the intellectual property system. Some of this material has rich connections with the work that the Association of Research LIbraries Special Colllections Task Force has been doing over the past year.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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