Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different knowledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult or even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Inasfar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a long time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different knowledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult as even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Insofar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a longer time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
Since several years it has been observed that information offered by different know-ledge producing institutions on the internet is more and more interlinked. This tendency will increase, because the fragmented information offers on the internet make the retrieval of information difficult or even impossible. At the same time the quantity of information offered on the internet grows exponentially in Europe – and elsewhere - due to many digitization projects. Inasfar as funding institutions base the acceptance of projects on the observation of certain documentation standards the knowledge created will be retrievable and will remain so for a long time. Otherwise the retrieval of information will become a matter of chance due to the limits of fragmented, knowledge producing social groups.
Three general remarks about documentation:
- The kind of documentation is dependent on its purposes. Order is not an end in itself.
- Questions of documentation are never of an ideological, but of a pragmatic kind.
- Documentation should serve only (and exactly only) one aim: the enhancement of the retrieval of knowledge relevant to your daily work.
Overview and purposes of ordering devices and documentation languages.
The spell of ubiquitous knowledge. Europeana, a portal to European cultural and scientific knowledge
(2009)
The target of Europeana is to make Europe's cultural and scientific resources accessible for all.
In detail the aims are:
- Providing access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage through a cross-domain portal,
- co-operating in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal,
- stimulating initiatives to bring together existing digital content,
- supporting digitisation of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage.