13th Conference on Professional Information Resources

Autor: Javier Hernandez-Ros, European Commission, Luxembourg

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Abstract:

The presentation will cover the aims, main features, past and ongoing developments of the Commission initiative i2010 Digital Libraries . The Digital Libraries Initiative is a flagship project of the EU's overall strategy to boost the digital economy, the i2010 strategy. The initiative aims at making Europe's diverse cultural and scientific heritage (books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc.) easier and more interesting to use online for work, leisure and/or study. It builds on Europe's rich heritage combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models. On the basis of the Communication "i2010 digital libraries", the paper will present the initiative as articulated in the following 3 domains: - digitisation; - online accessibility; - digital preservation. The paper will also take stock of the ongoing work to arrive at a European Digital Library, based on a multilingual single entry point to Europe's cultural heritage. To this aim, the Commission is working together with national libraries and other cultural institutions in Member States.

About author:

Javier HERNÁNDEZ-ROS Head of Unit, Digital Libraries & Public Sector Information, DG Information Society and Media. Trained as a civil engineer in Madrid (Universidad Politécnica), has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Instituto de Empresa). After seven years working in engineering companies in Spain, he joined the European Commission in 1986 and was involved in technology transfer and innovation policies, where he set up the European network of "Innovation Relay Centres" and the "Innovating Regions in Europe" network. From June 2002 he was Head of the "Information Market" unit. Since January 2007, following an internal reorganisation, the unit is now known as "Digital Libraries & Public Sector Information" . He is coordinating the "EU Digital libraries" initiative and promoting legal initiatives to support the development of the digital content industry, notably the "directive for re-use of public sector information". He was responsible for the e-Content and the Safer Internet programmes for the period 2002-2005. Further information: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_en.htm

Author: Jill Cousins, The European Library, Netherlands

Author: Zinaida Manžuch, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Author: Chi-ju Lee, National Library of Korea

Author: Wei Dawei, National Library of China

Author: Adolf Knoll, National Library of the Czech Republic

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