Europe, similar projects to promote and Google eBook Digital Renaissance
Report of the European Union recently received a proposal calling for the EU members should gradually be local libraries, archives or museums digital collection, to make Europe's cultural and knowledge more accessible. While the report encourages public and private cooperation, but suggested that such cooperation should be limited to 7 years, the outside world that this will impact Google's digital library program.
In fact, the EU already has its own digital library Europeana portal , the current collection, including text, audio and video and other cultural assets in Europe 15 million, the current work of the station is already more than the old as public assets.
EU vice president of digital projects Neelie Kroes said he was grateful for the report's recommendations to promote the digital renaissance, a rich cultural heritage of Europe are all digital, except in favor of education and innovation, but also will bring new economic activities.
Respectively, the report proposed the advertising industry in France Publicis CEO Maurice Levy, the German National Library Elisabeth Niggemann, and the French Royal Academy of Jacques De Decke Secretary-General, the trio of digital cultural assets for the EU industry consultant.
The report recommended that the EU should allow the Europeana web site of cultural heritage center, all Member States must ensure that all digital content can be accessed from the station, and by 2015 all public domain works will be put on Europeana. Digital works are also encouraged public and private partnerships, but the implicit cooperation of the relevant must be transparent and non-exclusive, but may allow other boundaries can also access all digital content, in addition, authorize the private use of these works for a period not should be more than 7 years.