UE Documentation

• General
• Legislation and official acts
• Framework Programmes
• Other European Programmes
• European Projects
• E-serials and newsletters

General

• Digital heritage and cultural content
• Lund principles
• Lund Action Plan

Legislation and official acts

• EU Official Documents
  
  
  • 1 June 2005. Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions "2010 - A European Information Society for growth and employment"
  • 28 May 2003. Council of Europe. Declaration on freedom of communication on the Internet
  • 5-6 May 2003.Council Resolution on Archives on the Member States, adopted at the 2503rd Council meeting (EDUCATION, YOUTH AND CULTURE), held in Brussels on 5 and 6 May 2003(8430/03 (Presse 114), available http://ue.eu.int/newsroom/NewMain.asp?LANG=1
  • 25 June 2002. Council Resolution on preserving tomorrow's memory - preserving
    digital content for future generations (2002/C/162/02)
  • 21 January 2002. Council Resolution on Culture and the Knowledge Society
    (2002/C 32/01)

Framework Programmes

• 27 June 2002. Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council
  concerning the 6th framework programme of the European Community for
  research, technological development and demonstration activities,
  contributing to the creation of the EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA and to
  innovation (2002-2006). (1513/2002/EC)
  
  
• Information about the Framework Programme 6
  
  
• FP6 Expression of Interest
  
  
• eCulture: FP6 special issue
  The most important features, information, publications, urls important for proposal submission.
  
  
• The Framework Programme 5
  
  
• The FP5 Work Programmes

Other European Programmes

• eTen
  The topics of eTEN Programme
  http://www.ten-telecom.org/en/eTEN_topic.html
  
  
• IST
  Information Society Technology
  http://www.cordis.lu/ist/

European Projects

• ABSIDE
  Apprendere in Biblioteca: la Società dell'Informazione contro la Discriminazione e l'Emarginazione
  http://www.abside.net
  
  
• Amicitia
  Asset Management Integration of Cultural heritage In The Interexchange between Archives
  http://www.amicitia-project.de
  
  
• Chimer
  Children's Heritage Interactive Models for Evolving Repositories
  http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue8/chimer/
  
  
• Cost 219
  Accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation networks
  http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter/
  
  
• ECHO - European CHroniches Ondine
  The Project aims at developing a Digital Library (DL) service for historical films belonging to large national audiovisual archives
  http://pc-erato2.iei.pi.cnr.it/echo
  
  
• Diffuse
  Provision of a single, value-added, entry point to up-to-date reference and guidance information
  on available and emerging standards and specifications that facilitate the electronic exchange of information
  http://www.diffuse.org
  
  
• eMarcon.net: Electronic Maritime Cultural Content
  Implementation of a platform allowing geographically distant European museums and their visitor to arrange and experience common virtual exhibitions via the Internet
  http://www.emarcon.net/
  
  
• EMII-DCF
  European Museums' Information Institute: Distributed Content Framework
  http://130.242.22.123/SITEMAP.ASP
  
  
• Erpanet
  Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork
  http://www.erpanet.org
  
  
• EuroAccessibility
  Twenty-four European Organisations Launch Effort for a More Accessible Web
  http://www.euroaccessibility.org/index.php
  
  
• HELP
  The project aim is to provide visually impaired users with accessibility to cultural heritage information
  http://www.munchundberlin.org
  
  
• Mesmuses
  Methaphors for Science Museums
  http://cweb.inria.fr/Projects/Mesmuses/
  
  
• META-E
  The METAdata Engine Project
  http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/
  
  
• ORION
  Network of leading experts for examining the business, technological and cultural landscape in the museum environment and the supporting educational & scientific communities
  http://www.orion-net.org
  
  
• Orpheus
  E-learning market valutation
  http://www.orpheus-edu.org
  
  
• Projects approved within Digicult
  http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/projects_a_g.htm
  
  
• Pulman
  PUblic Libraries Mobilising Advanced Networks
  http://www.pulmanweb.org/
  
  
• Regnet
  Cultural Heritage in REGional Networks
  http://www.regnet.org/
  
  
• RightsWatch
  Research project aiming at developing consensus and promoting awareness of self-regulatory notice and takedown (NTD) procedures for Europe, as a tool to achieve prompt removal of copyright-infringing material from the Internet
  http://www.rightswatch.com/
  
  
• RoMEO
  Rights MEtadata for Open archiving. It investigates the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's for Metadata Harvesting
  http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/
  
  
• Sculpteur R&D
  It includes a web-based demonstrator for navigating, searching and retrieving 2D images, 3D models and textual metadata from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The demonstrator combines traditional metadata based searching with 2D and 3D content based searching, and also includes a graphical ontology browser so that users unfamiliar to the museum collection can visualise, understand and explore this rich cultural heritage information space.
  http://www.sculpteurweb.org/
  
  
• SEPIA
  Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access
  http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/home.html
  
  
• TEL
  The European Library. The gate to Europe's knowledge
  http://www.europeanlibrary.org/
  
  
• Trad-ex
  http://www.meta.cpr.it/tradex/index.htm

E-serials and newsletters

• DigiCULT News
  Newsletter of DigiCULT Consortium
  http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php
  
  
• eCulture newsletter
  Information on DG INFSO IST activities under Key Action 3 in the field of Digital Heritage Applications
  http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/newsletter.htm
  
  
• IST Results eBulletin
  eBulletin on the results of IST research
  http://www.istresults.info/