Press Release: Digital Agenda: encouraging digitisation of EU culture to help boost growth

On the 28 October 2011, the European Commission adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material.

This was essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe's creative industries. The digitised material should be available through Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum.

European Commission: Memo/11/745: Digital Agenda: Recommendation on the digitisation of cultural material and its preservation on line - frequently asked questions http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/745&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Website: Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

European Commission: Digital Agenda http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm

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