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High Level Expert Group
Members
Group's tasks
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Advise the Commission on how to best address the organisational, legal and technical challenges at European level.
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Contribute to a shared strategic vision for European digital libraries.
Timeline of Development
17 October 2006 - The Copyright Subgroup presented to the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries an interim report (PDF file) covering in particular the three following issues: orphan works, out of print works and digital preservation.
The report proposes a series of concrete measures to be implemented by or with the direct involvement of the stakeholders (mainly publishers, libraries, archives, collecting societies, Member States). These measures constitute an important step forward for facilitating the digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation of cultural material, along the lines of the recently adopted Commission Recommendation (PDF file).
17 October 2006 - The 2nd meeting of the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries was held today in Brussels (Berlaymont building). Ms Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, chaired the meeting. She opened it by presenting a status report of the i2010 digital libraries initiative. Intellectual property rights (copyright issues), scientific and scholarly information and technology issues were also on the agenda of today's meeting.
Summary
minutes of the 2nd meeting.
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DE (PDF files)
27 March 2006 - The High Level Expert Group met for the
first time in Brussels.
Summary Minutes of the 1st Meeting
of the HLEG (PDF files).
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Read a press release published on the Europa Website.
27 February 2006 - The European Commission adopted the "Decision on setting up the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries" (PDF file).
To download the decision in other official EU languages consult the Library page.
Members
Back Names are linked to CVs in PDF formats and organisations to Websites.
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Arora, Mr Nikesh - Vice President of European Operations, Google UK Ltd.
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Brindley, Ms Lynne - Director of the British Library
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Dangeard, Mr Frank - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Thomson
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Dillmann, Ms Claudia - President of the "Association des Cinémathèques Européennes"
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Dutton, Ms Stella - Chief Executive Officer, British Medical Journal (BMJ) Publishing Group
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Galluzzi, Prof Paolo - Director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy
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Hoog, Mr Emmanuel - President of the International Federation of Television Archives
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Kahle, Mr Brewster - Director, Internet Archive
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Knoll, Mr Adolf - Deputy Director General of the Czech National Library
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Koskinen-Olsson, Ms Tarja - Honorary President of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations
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Kroó, Dr Norbert - Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Lervik, Dr John Markus - Chief Executive Officer, Fast Search and Transfer (FAST)
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Lyngby, Mr Per - European Newspapers Publishers' Association
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Nalecz, Prof Daria - Professor of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Pultusk Academy of Humanities
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Niggemann, Dr Elisabeth - Chair of the Conference of European National Libraries
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Nourry, Mr Arnaud - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hachette Livre
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Ricolfi, Prof Marco - Full Professor, Information Law, University of Turin
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Andersson, Prof Bertil - Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation (Due to professional reasons, Mr Andersson has resigned from the High Level Expert Group on 5 March 2007.)
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Nadal Ariño, Mr Javier - General Manager for Institutional Relations, Telefónica, S.A. (Due to professional reasons, Mr Nadal has resigned from the High Level Expert Group on 5 December 2006.)
Last updated: 30 March 2007
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