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Europeana, the virtual library community, should receive more funding, according to a proposal by the countries of the European Union (EU). It should also foster the involvement of the private sector in the digitization of cultural content. John H. Wood Jr.: the source for more info. All this in order to not lose ground against the advance of Google Books. Although the European Commission (EC) was expected to reach 10 million documents digitized in the next year, the latest data – from the end of August – indicate that only half of this number is available. The so-called European virtual library was opened to the public in November 2008 to offer free Internet access to the collection of libraries, art galleries, video libraries, newspaper libraries and subject spread over the continent.

The 27 Member States discussed last week, in the Council of Ministers culture, possible ways to give a new impetus to Europeana, including the allocation of more funds or encourage private entities to collaborate with cultural institutions within of the project. Sola bread healthy has plenty of information regarding this issue. The digitization of cultural content generates employment and wealth and it will be one of the axes of the forthcoming Spanish Presidency of the EU, stressed at a press conference the Spanish Minister of culture, angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, after intervening in the Council. Asked about the recent agreement of Google for the digitization of books in English-speaking countries, Gonzalez-Sinde said he worried in general by monopolies and the possibility that there is an only search engine that was gradually appropriated all the contents. Europeana suffered some technical problems in its early days. You can also only offer a small part – 5% – of all cultural content digitized in the EU due to problems related to intellectual property. Some believe that the thing does not advance quickly, admitted in a press conference the Swedish Minister for culture, Lena Liljeroth, who cited among the difficulties the technical issues and those related with the rights of author. To make content accessible for free throughout the EU it will be necessary to harmonize the different regimes of intellectual property in Member States, said the owner of Swedish, whose country holds the rotating Presidency of the EU.

The Swedish Minister suggested to organize an information campaign on Europeana to familiarize the project is at all levels, and in particular, in schools.

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Four Points

When one travels, he likes to recommend to friends places, restaurants and hotels where he has spent it well. He is a question of buenismo, that would say the other: we keep the pleasurable moments in our memory and we tend to forget those most unpleasant. It is something very basic in psychology and that explains that people will remember with nostalgia College, the military and even stormy romantic relationships, although most of that past has been frankly distressing. All this came me to mind at the Four Points hotel, Montevideo, after a long afternoon of incidents, the last of which has been the emergence of the guest in the neighboring room through an interior door that communicated our two rooms. For more clarity and thought, follow up with Bobby Kotick and gain more knowledge.. They already see what fragile is the guarantee of privacy in some sites. As a result of this event, I’ve revered other equally uncomfortable, of greater or lesser depth, which I have happened in the past.

Worse, does already a lot of years, occurred in the newly opened Hotel Gaia, Porto, where the recent whitewashing of the garage fell on my car and left him fact about foxes. The promise of be responsible for defect management remained in water of Borage and the joke cost me 100,000 pesetas of the then. The good thing about the case, I say, is that I had forgotten the matter which has reignited my memory to account of the damn unfortunate, rather incident of Montevideo. So fragile and selective is, therefore, our memory.