28 abril 2005

CULTURAS IN VITRO

Portugal ainda pode assinar. Porquê o atraso?
European Libraries Fight Google-ization: In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature. [...]
The statement was signed by national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. [...]
The British National Library has given its implicit support to the move, without signing the motion, while Cyprus and Malta have agreed verbally to the text. Portugal is also set to approve it.

European Digital Library Is Proposed: Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library."