EU Commission recommends

EU Commission Recommendations on digitisation and Digital Preservation. Here is a link to their press release (28 October 2011), which itself can take you to the full text of the recommendations and to other useful background information.

"The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted in 2006. It takes account of Member States’ progress reports from 2008 and 2010, which show that although progress has been made, more and better action is needed as regards financial resources, quantitative targets for digitisation and solid support for Europeana. It also builds on the conclusions of the Comité des Sages, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010, on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online."

Scintillating stuff indeed.