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Digital Libraries Initiative :: Timeline

Timeline of development

2012

At its meeting on 10 May 2012, the Education, Youth and Culture (EYC) Council adopted conclusions on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation on the basis of the Commission's Recommendation  of 27 October 2011.

In its conclusions, the Council invites the Member States to 

·         Consolidate their strategies and targets for the digitisation of cultural material;

·         Consolidate the organisation of and provision of funding for digitisation, promoting public-private partnerships;

·         Improve the framework conditions for the online accessibility and use of cultural material;

·         Contribute to the further development of Europeana, the Europeana Digital Library and

·         To ensure long-term digital preservation.

In the Annex to its conclusions, the Council sets out a number of priority actions as well as an indicative timetable for work by the Member States in the years 2012-2015 in order to achieve these objectives.

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