Digitisation in Europe - The New Renaissance

"The European Union's Comite' des Sages recently published The New Renaissance, a proud call-to-arms for the digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage. There are plenty of questions it raises and some of the recommendations will be very difficult to put into practice. But as a lofty statement of intent it's a powerful document and very welcome, focusing hearts and minds on the task of digitisation. Some of its broad aims overlap with the recent Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship document published by JISC. At the heart of the recommendations is the desire for far greater commitment to digitisation from the member states of the EU. It urges the individual governments to fund the digitisation of out of copyright works. It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the UK" - JISC