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Digital Agenda for Europa: More documents available in all EU languages

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:10:00 GMT

In addition to the strategy and the press release, more documents are now available in all the EU languages, in particular the factsheets "Key initiatives" and "Digital Agenda: what would it do for me?" on the impact on various social groups.

Digital Agenda: European film heritage – will it be there for future generations?

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:00 GMT

A report published today by the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate General sounds the alarm over the survival of Europe's film heritage. 80% of silent films are estimated to have been lost already but even new digital era films are at risk. Although the digital era provides new means of making and presenting films, it also imposes new challenges to the traditional ways of collecting and preserving films. Digital technologies are constantly evolving and what seems cutting-edge today may be as obsolete as cassette tapes or video recorders in 2020. Film heritage institutions need to keep up, take up and advance new technologies to preserve Europe's films.

Challenges of the digital era for film heritage institutions. Contract notice.

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:42:00 GMT

Tender procedure in the field of Media policy.Short description: 1. Describing in detail the challenges that film heritage institutions are facing in relation to digital production or distribution of cinematographic works (in cinemas or via new channels of distribution). 2. Establishing which kind of legal/organisational/technical changes have to be introduced to ensure that film archives will continue to perform their role in the digital era. 3. Analysing the situation in the 27 Member States: are film archives and national administrations aware of the challenge? Are they already introducing changes or have they planned to do so? Identify problems and best practices. 4. Analysing the situation in film heritage institutions in USA and compare it with EU-27. 5. Describing the strategies of American majors and large European production companies for preservation of their digital films. 6. Providing feasible recommendations and a calendar to Member States and film heritage institutions on how to prepare for the digital era. 7. Providing policy options for EU action.

Education, Youth and Culture Council, 10-11 May

Fri, 07 May 2010 11:11:00 GMT

European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes will welcome the Council's conclusions on Europeana, Europe's digital library, and introduce the recently nominated Reflection Group on digitisation. Before the end of the year, the Group is due to present innovative solutions on how best to speed up digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe. Ms Kroes will urge Ministers to speed up work on the digitisation of cultural work to boost the availability of Europe's cultural heritage on Europeana.

Europeana: European Commission welcomes European Parliament support

Wed, 05 May 2010 13:30:00 GMT

Strong support from the European Parliament for the further development of Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum, has been welcomed by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes. The European Parliament's Resolution adopted today has joined the European Commission in asking EU Member States to step up their efforts to make their cultural heritage available through the site that already gives direct access to 7 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips, paintings and musical extracts.