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Article: New EU members put Euro digital library vision at risk. EC urged to take action on multiple barriers to library digitisation in new EU states.
- Article from:
- Information World Review
- Article date:
- February 22, 2006
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Byline: Tracey Caldwell.
Significant gaps in the digitisation capabilities of new EU member states are threatening the European Commission's vision of a shared European heritage network, a study has found.
A report by Tel-Me-Mor, the body that set up the European Library portal, points to a range of factors hindering the digitisation of resources by new member states, with only four of the 10 libraries surveyed having significant amounts of digitised content.
Tel-Me-Mor has called on the European Commission to create the conditions needed for international collaborative information networks.
The report was presented to the Conference of ...