From Print to Digital, from Document to Data: Digitalisation at the Publications Office of the European Union

Open Information Science

Schafer Valérie¹ 

[1] Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Maison des Sciences Humaines, 11, Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg;

关键词: digitalisation;    digitisation;    computerisation;    european union;    publishing;    history;    technology;   

DOI  :  10.1515/opis-2020-0015

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Since the 1970s, the Publications Office of the European Union, the official publisher of all the institutions and bodies of the EU, has had to adapt to a fast-changing situation as the number of EU Member States has grown and the number and nature of publications has evolved (including publishing public tenders of EU institutions and Member States in 1978 through a supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union and handling CELEX, an interinstitutional and multilingual automated documentation system for community law, in 1992). These changes occurred over several ages of computing. The computerisation of the Publications Office was primarily a response to the need for rationalisation and productivity, but the aim was also to gradually adapt to new types of document publication and consultation. These different stages of digitalisation required the constant transfer of information to a multitude of media. Supports, such as punched cards, optical discs and CD-ROMs, had varying life expectancies and are all evidence of attempts to digitise information before the Web.

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