i2010 Digital Libraries: Questions for online consultation


Much of our interest in submitting answers to the questions of the Commission is to be able to develop the reality of the Digital re-Discovery of Culture [DrDC], especially with respect to the DrDC game and EduTainment.



The EU document is provided here for ease of distribution and comment.
annex2_en.pdf

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm {2005-11-16}

For personal ease of consultation and comment we will use simple acronyms for the list of 8 questions:

DOA: Digitisation and online accessibility
--- Of course, DOA has interesting expansions such as "dead on arrival", "digitised on arrival", ...

PDC: Preservation of digital content

The actual numbering of the questions will be preserved.

Hence, here is our scheme:

DOA 1 ALL EU LANGUAGES
<quote>
What additional measures could be taken at national and European level to
encourage digitisation and online accessibility of material in all European
languages?
</quote>

DOA 2 NEW BUSINESS MODELS
<quote>
What measures could be taken to promote private investments and new business-
models such as public-private partnerships for digitising and making historical
collections accessible?
</quote>

DOA 3 COPYRIGHT
<quote>
What measures of a legislative, technical, organisational or other nature, could
facilitate the digitisation and subsequent accessibility of copyrighted material, while
respecting the legitimate interests of authors?
</quote>

DOA 4 ORPHANS
<quote>
Is the issue of orphan material economically important and relevant in practice?
If yes, what technical, organisational and legal mechanisms could be used to
facilitate wider use of this material?
</quote>

DOA 5 PUBLICITY [ == publiC + City ]
<quote>
How could public domain material and other material available for general use
(voluntary sharing) be made more transparent and widely known in order to
facilitate its online availability for subsequent use?
</quote>

PDC 6 QUEUEING
<quote>
What priority measures – in particular of an organisational and legal nature-–
should be taken at national and European level to optimise the preservation of
digital content with the limited resources available?
</quote>

PDC 7 FRAGMENTATION
<quote>
Is there a risk that national legal deposit schemes lead to a multiplication of
requirements on internationally active companies? Would European legislation help
avoiding this?
</quote>

PDC 8 RESEARCH
<quote>
How could research contribute to progress on the preservation front? Which axes
of work should be addressed in priority by the forthcoming Specific Research
Programmes as part of the 7th Framework Programme?
</quote>


Posted: Wed - November 16, 2005 at 08:18 a.m.          

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