This book presents the combined results of a research and development project funded by the European Union’s 5th Framework Programme of 2001–2004. The full title of the project was “The challenges of modernity for REiNdeer MANagement: integration and sustainable development in Europe’s subarctic and boreal regions (RENMAN)”1. Within this Framework Programme, RENMAN was funded under the Key Acti...

Issued by the European Commission's Intelligent Energy Executive Agency (IEEA), this report presents a series of international projects supported by the European Union's Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) programme. The information contained in it may be reproduced. The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with its authors. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of the ...

We present, compare and contrast new directions in long term digital preservation as covered by the four large European Community funded research projects that started in 2011. The new projects widen the domain of digital preservation from the traditional purview of memory institutions preserving documents to include scenarios such as health-care, data with direct commercial value, and webbased...

BACKGROUND Adequate performance assessment benefits from the use of disaggregated data to allow a proper evaluation of health systems. Since routinely collected data are usually not disaggregated enough to allow stratified analyses of healthcare needs, utilisation, cost and quality across different sectors, international research projects could fill this gap by exploring means to data collectio...