[Web4lib] Open Content Alliance announced

[Lars Aronsson]

Roy Tennant wrote:

> "The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with 
> [...] Other participants in the alliance announced Monday 
> include Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet 
> Archive, O'Reilly Media Inc., the University of California and 
> the University of Toronto."

This is good news, but the press release and website also mention 
"the European Archive", and what on earth is that?  An uninformed 
reader might be led to believe it has anything to do with Europe 
or the European Union.

Talking of Europe, there was a press release from the European 
Commission on Friday September 30, "Commission unveils plans for 
European digital libraries", supposedly a follow-up to the French 
national librarian's outcry in January over Google Print and 
America's cultural imperialism, 
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1202&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

(May those who have the shortest URLs win.)


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/