Press Release: Improving and extending the use of ICT to make the most of Europe’s cultural and audiovisual heritage

The European Commission on 3 May 2005 announced that it planned to issue a communication by July outlining the stakes involved and identifying the obstacles to using written and audiovisual archives in the European Union. The communication was to be accompanied by a proposal for a Recommendation aimed at enlisting all the public players concerned and facilitating public-private partnerships in the task of digitising our heritage.

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CORDIS: ISTweb: Directorate E: DigiCULT: eEurope and digitisation http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/digicult/eeurope.htm

European Commission: DG Information Society: Culture and Society: Culture in the digital era http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/soccul/cult/index_en.htm

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