Továbbítom az Európai Unió számára készült tanulmányt az Európai
kulturális örökség online-ná tételéről.
Üdvözlettel:
Nagy Anna
OSZK
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From: "Purday, Jonathan"<Jonathan.Purday@BL.UK>
Subject: Comité des Sages delivers its report
To: EUROPEANA@MAILTALK.AC.UK
Dear Partners
Below are the main points of the press release issued by the
Commission on the publication of the Comité's Report. The Report's
recommendations will inform the Commissioner's digital strategy for
cultural heritage in the long term. Do send this information around
your network, link from your website and generally promote its
importance.
The Comité des Sages calls for a "New Renaissance" by bringing
Europe's cultural heritage online
The report
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf> of the Comité des Sages
(high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe's cultural
heritage was delivered today to Neelie Kroes, European Commission
Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, and Androulla Vassiliou,
Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture.
Among its top recommendations are that Europeana
<http://www.europeana.eu/> should become the central reference point
for Europe's online cultural heritage. Member States must ensure that
all material digitised with public funding is available on the site,
and bring all their public domain masterpieces into Europeana by
2016.
Cultural institutions, the European Commission and Member States
should actively and widely promote Europeana.
The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put
online the collections held in all their libraries, archives and
museums. It stresses the benefits of making Europe's culture and
knowledge more easily accessible. It also points to the potential
economic benefits of digitisation, including through public-private
partnerships, for the development of innovative services in sectors
like tourism, research and education. The report endorses the Digital
Agenda's objective of strengthening Europe's digital library
Europeana
and suggests solutions for making works covered by copyright
available
online.
The Comité des Sages on Digitisation comprises Maurice Lévy,
Elisabeth
Niggemann and Jacques de Decker (see IP/10/456
<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/456>
).
The report's recommendations will feed into the Commission's broader
strategy, under the Digital Agenda for Europe
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm>
, to help cultural institutions make the transition towards the
digital age.
Neelie Kroes said: "I sincerely thank the three "sages" for their
constructive suggestions on how we can trigger a "Digital
Renaissance"
in Europe. Bringing our museums' and libraries' collections online
not
only shows Europe's rich history and culture but can also usher in
new
benefits for education, for innovation and for generating new
economic
activities. It will put high quality content on the net for many
generations."
Androulla Vassiliou added: "The Group has balanced the interests of
creators with the imperatives of a changing environment in the
digital
era. We need to find ways and means to do so in all the areas where
the cultural and creative industries are confronted with the
challenges of moving into the digital age. Culture and heritage in
the
digital era represent a set of opportunities for European economies
and societies."
Called "The New Renaissance", the Report's conclusions and
recommendations also include:
* Works that are covered by copyright, but are no longer distributed
commercially, need to be brought online. It is primarily the role of
rights-holders to digitise these works and exploit them. But, if
rights holders do not do so, cultural institutions must have a window
of opportunity to digitise material and make it available to the
public, for which right holders should be remunerated. * EU rules for
orphan works (whose rights holders cannot be identified) need to be
adopted as soon as possible. The Report defines eight fundamental
conditions for any solution. * Member States need to considerably
increase their funding for digitisation in order to generate jobs and
growth in the future. The funds needed to build 100 km of roads would
pay for the digitisation of 16% of all available books in EU
libraries, or the digitisation of every piece of audio content in EU
Member States' cultural institutions.
* Public-private partnerships for digitisation must be encouraged.
They must be transparent, non-exclusive and equitable for all
partners, and must result in cross-border access to the digitised
material for all. Preferential use of the digitised material granted
to the private partner should not exceed seven years.
* To guarantee the preservation of collections in their digital
format, a second copy of this cultural material should be archived at
Europeana. In addition, a system should be developed so that any
cultural material that currently needs to be deposited in several
countries would only be deposited once.
The recommendations of the 'Comité des sages' will feed into the
Commission's broader strategy, under the Digital Agenda for Europe
<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm>
to help cultural institutions make the transition towards the digital
age and to search for new and effective business models that
accelerate digitisation while allowing fair remuneration for rights
holders where necessary (see IP/10/581
<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/581&for
mat=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en> , MEMO/10/199
<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/199&f
ormat=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en> and MEMO/10/200
<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/200&f
ormat=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en> ). The recommendations
will also be useful for the Commission's plan to develop a
sustainable
funding model for Europeana by 2012.
Today europeana.eu<http://europeana.eu/> already offers access to
more than 15 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips,
paintings and musical extracts, but this is only a fraction of works
held by Europe's cultural institutions (see IP/10/1524
<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1524>
). Most digitised materials are older works in the public domain, to
avoid potential litigation for works covered by copyright.
To access the press release in other languages:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/17&forma
t=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
To access the full report:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/d
oc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf
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