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The Commission Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation invites the Member States to inform the Commission every two years of action taken in response to it.

The Commission Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation invites the Member States to inform the Commission every two years of action taken in response to it.

The SUCCEED project has prepared a set of recommendations on formats and standards related to digitization activities.

A consortium including five national archives and government IT modernisation programs in Spain and Portugal is to develop solutions that will allow Europe's national archives to keep records authentic as well as usable. The system will be made available publicly, and software will be published as open source. The E-Ark project (European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation) was given a 2.9 million euro grant from the European Commission. The three-year project was launched this Tuesday at a meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.

On the 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the digital archive "Europeana 1914-1918" was released in Berlin. Ten national libraries and twenty film archives worked together for the largest digital image and document archive -500,000 objects.

One of the major achievements of the Paths project has been to demonstrate the practical benefits and technical feasibility of enriching the metadata for cultural heritage collections as a means of improving content retrieval, supporting innovative discovery and exploitation. This addresses a critical issue for cultural heritage institutions across Europe who hold vast quantities of quality content in digital libraries that are currently never found unless explicitly sought. Positive feedback from users involved in the evaluation of the PATHS prototypes confirmed that the project achieved its objective of developing tools that add value to digital libraries and enrich user experiences. The interactivity offered by PATHS tools and the potential for expert and non-expert users to use content to create narratives, tell stories and make personal collections has the potential to have real impact on the development of the next generation of cultural heritage services.

An Information Day was organised on 23 January 2014 in Luxembourg which addressed potential applicants for the first Calls under Horizon 2020 in the fields of ICT research & innovation supporting the Cultural and Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage.

See bellow the presentations on the calls for download.

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<font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3"><font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3">The Succeed awards will recognise the successful implementation of a digitisation </font></font><font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3"><font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3">programme, especially those exploiting the latest technology and the output of research for </font></font><font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3"><font face="CenturySchL-Roma" size="3">the digitisation of historical text.</font></font></p>