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FUTURE AGENDA

The future agenda regarding digitisation in public libraries will be heavily dependent on the actions taken in response to policy issues (see above). In particular, collaboration should result in the more widespread adoption of standards which will make interoperability between collections feasible. The ideal will be a situation in which the end user can search for any digitised image and view, download and use that image without having to know where the collection is based or having to make any adjustments to his/her desktop. This implies not just adoption of technical standards but reconciliation of rights issues.

Technical developments in this area are likely to be clustered around (a) ever more sophisticated scanners and digital cameras, with falling real prices, and (b) international agreement on standards (as described elsewhere in this document) to facilitate interoperability.

Organisational issues may include the development of formal repositories (which might be centred on the public library – the ‘community repository’) and, linked to that, collaboration in the preservation of digital objects. (The Digital Preservation Coalition is an example of this approach). As yet there is no agreement on suitable ‘permanent’ media for long-term preservation, but this should be resolved in the medium term.

LINKS
International

UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/index_2.html

UNESCO Memory of the World programme.
Storage of and Access to Data: The Solution for the Compound Document
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/czech_digitization/doc/intro.htm

Bibliotheca Universalis
This initiative, a G-7 global information society pilot project, has listed major national digitisation projects
http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/digit.htm

IFLA
Has been active through both its Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) Programmes

National baseline studies
Following the agreement reached in Lund (see above) EC member states are each preparing an overview of national and regional policies and programmes on digitisation of cultural and scientific content.

Examples from member states

Czech Republic
Digital Library and Archives
The basic goal is the building of the digital library and archive for preservation of and access to rare documents from libraries, museums, archives, and other Czech collections. http://www.nkp.cz/o_knihovnach/English/LPIS4.htm

Denmark
Danske Billeder
A collection of old photographs of Denmark.
http://www.danskebilleder.dk/

Estonia
Index Scriptorum Estoniae
The National Library of Estonia provides public Internet access to a database Index Scriptorum Estoniae (ISE), a web-based joint database of articles of the existing ProCite databases (11 databases on various subjects) for use via the Internet. ISE can be accessed by all libraries, including public libraries via the National Library of Estonia homepage at the address. A popular service.
http://www.nlib.ee, or http://www.ise.nlib.ee

National Library of Estonia's subject gateway
While choosing the links, the acquisition profile of the National Library was primarily taken into account and, for this reason, the subject gateway does not provide, for example, Web addresses of technology resources. Web publications, mostly foreign, are listed alphabetically and by subject. Used also by public libraries. http://www.nlib.ee/

National Library of Estonia e-services
Remote library visits. All information and library services provided by the library, ILL, acquiring ISBN, ISSN and ISMN numbers for a publication, the ELNET Consortiums electronic catalogue ESTER (http://helios.nlib.ee/screens/mainmenu_est.html) and other electronic databases generated by the National Library. Open to the public free of charge. http://www.nlib.ee/teen/eteen.html

France
Lyon
Digitisation projects of Lyons public library and a description of how they were carried out. http://www.addnb.org/fr/docs/numlyon.htm

Milestones and tasks for digitisation projects in libraries, in French: http://www.addnb.org/fr/docs/numproj.htm
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/f_04.htm
http://www.culture.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/dll/index.htm

Germany
Ulm
The website of the public library of Ulm with access to digitised documents. http://www.stadtbibliothek.ulm.de/

Hungary
The John von Neumann Digital Library (the Neumann House) was founded at the end of 1997. The primary task of this company is to participate in the digitisation of Hungarian cultural heritage, coordinate all related activities and manage the network services built on these digitisation projects.
http:// www.neumann-haz.hu

The Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK)
One of the projects of the Hungarian National Infrastructure Development Program and the Hungarian National Library (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár), it aims to be the central collection of the public-domain Hungarian electronic texts for educational, scientific research, and cultural purposes.
http://www.mek.iif.hu/

National digital projects
http://www.nkom.gov.hu/

Spain
CODEX project
Digitisation of the bibliographical heritage of the State Public Libraries
http://www.bcl.jcyl.es/correo/Correo5/Noticias5.html#1

Digitisation Programme of local newspapers developed by the Servei de Biblioteques de la Diputació de Barcelona
http://www.diba.es/biblioteques/Projectes/Prj14-c1.asp

Virtual library Pio Tejera (Murcia Regional Library)
Creation of a virtual library comprising the whole of the Murcian bibliography from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, compiling and digitising those works that must be included in the bibliographic heritage of the Region of Murcia).
http://www.bibliotecaregional.carm.es/servicios/proyectos/piotejera.html

Regional Library in Valencia: BIVALDI project:
Virtual library of bibliographical heritage.
http://bv2.gva.es/

United Kingdom
Going Digital: issues in digitisation for public libraries
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/public/earl/issuepapers/digitisation.htm

Gould, Sara and Ebdon, Richard
‘IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation’ http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/survey_index_en.html

Lee, Stuart D.
‘Digital imaging: a practical handbook’ London: Library Association Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-85604-353-3

Leeds
Local History Photographic Collection
http://www.leodis.org/

The nof-digitise Programme
http://www.nof-digitise.org/

and its Technical Standards and Guidelines
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/manual/

Powys
Digital History Project
http://history.powys.org.uk/

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