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>From: Jonathan.Purday at KB.nl
>Cc:
>Subject: European Digital Library Foundation welcomed by the Commissioner
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:56:30 +0100
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>28 November 2007
>
>Press Release
>
>European Digital Library Foundation welcomed by the Commissioner
>
>Viviane Reding, the Information Society and Media Commissioner, today  
>endorsed
>the work of the European Digital Library Foundation when she met members  
>for the
>formal handover of their statutes. “Europe's citizens should all be able to
>enjoy our rich cultural heritage. This Foundation is a significant step  
>towards
>making that ambition come true," the Commissioner said. "It shows the  
>commitment
>of Europe's cultural institutions to work together to make their  
>collections
>available and searchable by the public through a common and multilingual  
>access
>point online."
>
>Foundation members include the key European heritage and information
>associations. Their statutes commit members to work in partnership to:
>
>Provide access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a  
>cross-domain
>portal
>
>Co-operate in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal
>
>Stimulate initiatives to bring together existing digital content
>
>Support digitisation of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage
>
>The European digital library is developing its prototype site for launch  
>next
>year. To coincide with the formal handover to the Commissioner, the  
>Foundation
>announced the CITY as the first of the site’s themes.
>
>The CITY is a broad theme that will enable the prototype site to show the
>European urban experience from several perspectives. Emerging ideas  
>include:
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>cities of the future/cities of the past
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>migration and diaspora
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>trade and industry
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>design, shopping and urban cool
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>pox, cholera and the plague: the route to urban health
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>archaeology and architecture
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>utopias and cities of the imagination
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>riot and disorder
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>palaces and politics
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>The digital library project is gathering digitised content from European
>archives, museums, audio-visual collections and libraries. It will use  
>maps,
>artefacts, photos, sound, film material, books, archival records and  
>artworks to
>explore two millennia of connectivity between Europe’s cities.
>
>Dr Wim van Drimmelen, foundation member and Director of the Koninklijke
>Bibliotheek, the Netherlands, which hosts the European digital library
>initiative, said, “archives, museums, audio-visual collections and  
>libraries are
>collaborating in order to guarantee that their resources can be brought  
>together
>in a virtual world, regardless of where the original is held. It’s what  
>users
>expect. However, the benefits are not just for the users. The development  
>work
>is providing an excellent forum for knowledge transfer between the domains,
>which increases our collective ability to respond to changing user needs  
>and
>remain relevant in the fast-moving digital environment.”
>
>For further information contact Jonathan Purday on 00 31 [0] 70314 0684
>
>Jonathan.purday at kb.nl
>
>Notes for editors
>
>The European digital library will launch a prototype in November 2008. It  
>will
>give direct access to at least 2 million digitised books, photos, maps,  
>sounds,
>films and archival records from Europe's libraries, archives, museums and  
>audio-visual
>collections.
>
>The European Digital Library Foundation includes the following members:
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>Martine de Boisdeffre, EURBICA: European Regional Branch of International
>Council on Archives
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>Edwin van Huis, FIAT: International Federation of Television Archives
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>Claudia Dillmann, ACE: Association Cinémathèques Européennes
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>Massimo Negri, EMF: European Museums Forum
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>Elisabeth Niggemann, CENL: Conference of European National Librarians
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>Hans Geleijnse, LIBER: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
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>Christophe Dessaux, MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in
>Europe
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>Wim van Drimmelen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, national library of the  
>Netherlands
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>ICOM Europe: International Council of Museums, Europe
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>CERL: Consortium of European Research Libraries
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>The European digital library is hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the
>national library of the Netherlands, and led by the Conference of European
>National Librarians
>
>The initiative is one of the Commission's flagship i2010 initiatives to  
>create a
>European Information Society for growth and jobs (see IP/05/643).
>
>On 25 August 2006, the Commission adopted a Recommendation on digitisation  
>and
>digital preservation (see IP/06/1124 and MEMO/06/311) which urged EU Member
>States to set up large-scale digitisation facilities, so as to accelerate  
>the
>process of getting Europe's cultural heritage online via the European  
>digital
>library.
>
>In November 2006 the idea of a European digital library was strongly  
>endorsed by
>the Culture Ministers of all EU Member States and was recently backed by  
>the
>European Parliament in its resolution of 27 September 2007.
>
>More information about the European digital library can be found at  
>http://www.europeandigitallibrary.eu/edlnet/