NEWS from the European Commission, cultural heritage programme

The first ICT Work Programme under FP7, which defines the research priorities for 2007-2008, is structured in seven 'Challenges'. Challenge 4 is 'Digital Libraries and Content'.

Research objectives for digital libraries

(1) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries of cultural and scientific multi-format and multi-source digital objects, assisting communities of practice in the creative use of content in multilingual and multidisciplinary contexts through the following features:

-robust and scalable environments
-cost-effective digitisation processes
-semantic-based search facilities
-tools for digital preservation

(2) New approaches to digital preservation, where advanced ICTs will have capacities such as:

-acting on high volumes of dynamic and volatile digital content (notably web content)
-safeguarding integrity, authenticity and accessibility over time
-keeping track of contexts (evolving meaning and usage)
-enabling automatic and self-organising preservation

For more information and to download the work programme, please visit the FP7 website on ICT - Information and Communication Technologies: <http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/home_en.html>

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Manuela Speiser
European Commission
Communications Officer
Directorate-General Information Society and Media
Unit E3: Learning and Cultural Heritage
EUFO 1165A
L-2920 Luxembourg
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e-mail: manuela.speiser@cec.eu.int
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