Published by rwatstein December 22nd, 2007
in digital and Europe.
The latest report from Britain’s Office of Communications shows the UK to be well ahead of most other European countries in its use of digital media. The “International Communications Market” report, designed in part to provide international comparisons for the UK’s digital progress, also covers France, Germany, Italy, the United States, Canada and Japan. These results suggest that Britain is still in the vanguard of the digital future. As media convergence gathers pace, the UK’s buoyant online industry is setting a standard for the rest of Europe and proving to advertisers that the Internet marketplace does deliver.
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Published by rwatstein December 22nd, 2007
in libraries, digital and Europe.
DELOS is a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries partially funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The main objectives of DELOS are research, whose results are in the public domain, and technology transfer, through cooperation agreements with interested parties. That all citizens, anywhere, anytime, should have access to Internet-connected digital devices to search all of human knowledge, regardless of barriers of time, place, culture or language has been a vision of DELOS since its inception. DELOS believes that, in the near future, networked virtual libraries will enable anyone from their home, school or office to access the knowledge contained in the digital collections created by traditional libraries, museums, archives, universities, governmental agencies, specialised organizations, and individuals around the world. These new libraries will offer digital versions of traditional library, museum and archive holdings including text, documents, video, sound and images. But they will also provide powerful new technological capabilities that enable users to refine their requests, analyse the results, access collections in other languages, share resources, and work collaboratively.
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Published by rwatstein December 16th, 2007
in libraries, digital and Europe.
An expert group working with the EU is pressing towards the launch next November of a prototype European digital library, and plans to revise the copyright model for the digitisation of out-of-print works and orphan works. The aim of the group, which includes the Federation of European Publishers, is to have digitised versions of at least 2 million books, photographs, maps, archival records, and film material from Europe’s libraries, archives and museums.
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Published by rwatstein December 1st, 2007
in digital and Europe.
The Council of the European Union (EU) recently released its “conclusions on scientific information in the digital age”, a brief, although broad, seven-page document that acknowledges current developments, positive and negative in the provision of scientific information, but offers no concrete framework to address the issues it raised. The report urged further “experimentation,” and “a constructive debate” among EU member stakeholders, recognizing “the importance of effective collaboration between different actors, including funding agencies, researchers, research institutions and scientific publishers, in relation to access, dissemination and preservation of scientific publications and research data.”
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Published by rwatstein December 1st, 2007
in research and Europe.
European Union ministers have reportedly adopted a plan to make it easier for public to access scientific research and to help spread innovation more quickly across the 27-nation bloc. Four joint technology initiatives to carry out research in nano-electronic technologies, aeronautics, medicines and computing systems have also been approved. These initiatives are slated for launch in 2008.
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Published by rwatstein November 12th, 2007
in demographics and Europe.
According to a new study released by comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, the European region recorded its largest ever Internet audience in September with a 5-percent year-over-year growth, reaching 226.7 million unique visitors age 15 or older. Russia had the fastest growing online audience, increasing 23 percent to 14.6 million unique visitors, followed by Spain, which grew 18 percent to 14.5 million unique visitors, and Ireland, which grew 16 percent to 1.5 million.
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Published by rwatstein October 27th, 2007
in internet and Europe.
Taken as a whole, consumers from Western European nations such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom are among the world’s keenest users of the Web. But there are still differences in the rates of Internet usage and broadband penetration from country to country. Take the UK, for instance. ”Of the five major Western European nations, the United Kingdom has embraced the Internet most avidly — it was the first of these countries to see more than half its population online,” said Karin von Abrams, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report Western Europe: Internet Users and Usage. “Though the French, Germans and Italians were slower to respond to the Internet opportunity, all three have reached 50% penetration and even Spain is growing now.”
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