Dear MCG,
I represent the UK culture sector at the EU Member States Expert Group
on Digitisation and as such am responsible for coordinating our response
to the mandatory bi-annual review of the UK's progress against the
European Commission's Recommendations for Digitisation and Online
Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation.
This review takes the form of a questionnaire, and for the past few
weeks I have been working with a number of sector organisations to put
together our response.
The response covers the following areas:
* The UK cultural sector
* Digital Britain and the Digital Economy Bill
* Current Digitisation programmes and activity
* The presence (or absence) of national targets for Digitisation
* Progress with Public/Private Partnerships for Digitisation
* Orphan Works and Out-of-print works
* Development of registries of Public Domain content
* Provisions for Digital Preservation, web archiving and format
shifting
The full draft response is now online at
http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/consult. We would welcome any and all
comments, thoughts or contributions both to this report, and to the
verbal update which I will be giving on the 19th May in Luxembourg.
Please address any comments to me by email to
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In future, further information about Digital developments will be made
available through the new Collections Link website, which will be
launching in a few weeks time.
All best,
Nick
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