...Roswitha Poll Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present results of NUMERIC, a project of the European Commission that started out to define measures and methods for assessing the current state of digitisation in Europe's cultural institutions (archives, libraries and museums). The central...

... was the roles cultural institutions, such as libraries, may play in (virtual) communities and how they can build audience share based on these communities. In this context The European Library – gateway to Europe's national library resources – explained how it markets its services to academic communities...

... shortcomings of the existing web sites is presented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Worldwide web National libraries Europe Function evaluation Design There have been many papers (Line, 2001 ; Vitiello, 2001 ; Osborne, 2001), suggesting that national libraries have to react...

...Mel Collier The European Library (TEL) project aims to give digital access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe, operating under the auspices of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). A preparatory project, part funded by the European Union, ran from January...

...Juha Hakala Preserving the published cultural heritage of a country is a major concern of any national library, and the challenge of archiving and preserving information published on the Web is great. A short history of Web archiving in Europe from the Swedish Kulturarw3 project to the Nordic Web...

..., involved the application of new technologies in 80 cultural institutions in Europe and have contributed to cultural innovation. After introducing the general context of the EC’s cultural heritage sector within which TRIS and the take‐up trial projects have been funded, this article describes a selection...

... of the seminar (semantic Web and libraries), as well as papers on functional requirements for bibliographic records and others. Workshops are a key feature of the ELAG seminars and a brief mention is made of these. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Conferences Europe Italy Library automation...

... Europe Libraries Information The National Library and the State Technical Library of the Czech Republic invited ELAG (European Library Automation Group) to hold its 25th seminar in Prague in 2001. About 100 members attended and concentrated during three days (6‐8 June 2001) on the challenging...

... developments in eastern and central Europe since the break‐up of the USSR. However, in the main these resources have not been comprehensively indexed, have been in the English language and have been predominately UK‐based sites and documents. The remit of EuroStudies’ editors is to expand this coverage...

... for bibliographic information interchange on magnetic tape governs record structure or encoding rather than prescribing content with the structure. This has resulted in the proliferation of MARC standards (DESIRE, 1998). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Resource management Computer languages Europe Memory...