EUROPEAN EXPERT GROUP WILL EXAMINE BOOK DIGITISATION
April 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE'S slow digitisation of its rich literary treasures should receive a boost this year, with the European Commission establishing a 'reflection group' charged with helping clear technical and legal road-blocks.
It is supposed to report by December - and a key goal will be increasing content on Europeana, Europe's digital library, whose 7 million digitised items, noted the Commission "represent only a fraction of Europe's complete works".
This comment came in a communiqué about setting up the group, which will include Maurice Lévy ...
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