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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about the use of digital libraries within government.
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- Funding granted for the digitalisation of the cultural heritage
- ePractice.eu, 2 June 2010. Country Denmark; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Policy. In May 2010, the Danish Minister for Culture and the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, allocated DKK 21 million (approx. €1.6 million) for the digitisation of the national cultural heritage for the 2010-2012 period...
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- Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
- National Library of Australia. The Australian Newspapers service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. The millionth page was made publicly available on 14 December 2009, marking a project milestone. The millionth page contained the 10 millionth article. This was a 1901 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. There will be 40 million articles available by 2011.
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- British Library's Digital Library system passes half-million milestone
- Public Technology, 16 November 2009. "500,000th digital item added to long-term storage facility. The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Library’s 19th Century British Library Newspapers project, which recently made more than 2 million pages of historic newspapers available online..."
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- LOC Highlights Uses of Digital Library
- By Jill R. Aitoro. NextGov, 16 September 2009. "Once again, the Library of Congress demonstrates how federal government should not only utilize information technology, but also market the initiatives to actually encourage support and adoption. Tuesday the largest library in the world, which currently touts nearly 142 million items in its collections, demonstrated to 100 guests -- many from academia -- the potential of its World Digital Library in education..."
Added: 17 September 2009;
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- Europe's Digital Library doubles its size
- ePractice.eu, 15 September 2009. Country EU Institutions; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, Legal Aspects, Policy, User-centric Services. "In the light of the doubling of size of Europeana's collections, the discussion about the lack of a common web copyright solution in the European Union is revived. The European multilingual digital library Europeana provides access to digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers to all internet users..."
Added: 17 September 2009;
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- Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution
- Public Technology, 1 September 2009. "4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana, Europe's multilingual digital library. The collection of Europeana has more than doubled since it was launched in November 2008..."
Added: 2 September 2009;
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- Official presentation of new eLuxemburgensia portal
- Country Luxembourg; Domain eGovernment; Topic Services for Citizens, Infrastructure. "On 26 May 2009, the State Secretary for Culture, Higher Education and Research, Ms Octavie Modert, and the Director of the National Library of Luxemburg (BnL), Ms Monique Kieffer, presented the new 'eLuxemburgensia' web portal which will eventually gather all the documents that will be digitised by the National Library..."
Added: 18 June 2009;
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- World's first dedicated digital library opens in Korea
- By Kelly Ng. FutureGov, 4 June 2009. "The world's first purposed-built digital library with the largest dedicated space for users to access online content opened this week. The US$100 million 'Dibrary' aims to build an archive of blogs and web sites of historical significance..."
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- NASA launches online historical image gallery
- Site built with Internet Archive to add Web 2.0 tools, digitized analog content to site, By Brian Fonseca. Computerworld, July 29, 2008. "NASA last week launched a new interactive Web site, jointly developed with the non-profit Internet Archive, which initially combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities..."
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- Powerhouse adds photos to Flickr Commons
- by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com. ZDNet Australia, 20 June 2008. "Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C have begun adding historical photos to The Commons, Flickr's project to host publicly held images..."
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- Launch of European digital library "on track"
- European Commission, Press Release, IP/07/1784, Brussels, 28 November 2007. "Yesterday a high level group on digital libraries met Commission officials in Brussels to discuss progress towards launching the European digital library. A European digital library foundation has recently been created. This formalises the agreement of European archives, museums, audiovisual archives and libraries to work together and to provide a common access point to Europe's cultural heritage online..."
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- Digital works bring Library of Congress, Hollywood together
- By Ben Bain. Federal Computer Week, August 8, 2007. "Hoping to improve its ability to preserve and catalog the burgeoning amount of material on 0digital media, the Library of Congress has announced eight partnerships with organizations to establish digital format standards for photos, films, music and video games. .."
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- Nat'l Library of Scotland plans 100TB Digital Library storage project
- Public Technology, 17 May 2007. "The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has chosen GlassHouse Technologies to provide consultancy in the design and implementation of a new storage infrastructure as part of a project to build its digital library..."
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- French portal brings European Digital Library a step closer
- eGovernment News - 2 April 2007 - France - eGovernment Services - Pan-European Services. "The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has just announced the creation of Europeana, a new portal bringing the dream of a European Digital Library closer to reality..."
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- Contributing to the European Digital Library Vision
- Source: British Library. eGov Monitor, 26 March 2007. "The European Digital Library, a common multilingual access point to Europe's cultural heritage, has moved a step closer to becoming a reality after the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) announced the development of their new portal Europeana. CENL, the Conference of European National Librarians, warmly welcomes and gratefully acknowledges this initiative of one of its founding members as a contribution to the European Digital Library. The BnF not only raised the money to digitise and add 80-100,000 items per year to their Gallica collection, but also created an example of what the future European Digital Library might be..."
Added: 27 March 2007;
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