Regional Meeting of the SEEDI Sofia, Bulgaria June 11-13, 2006

Country paper: UKRAINE Victoria Donets V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University Ukraine © 2006

Experience of Ukraine now can be characterized as “initial”. There are no clearly formulated tasks on the national level on the state policy on the improvement of the access to knowledge. Only few web- projects were realized and they are mainly private or public initiatives.

Governmental bodies Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine

Research Organizations Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Repositories: Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Peresopnytsa Gospel

Kyiv Glagolitic Shits X-th century

Repositories: Scientific Library of Chernivtsi National University

Legislative Framework: Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the Conception of the National Information Policy” Paragraphs 24 and 25

International Projects: PULMAN Network – launched under the European Commission’s research program for the user-friendly information society (DG Information Society). Ukraine was represented by Country coordinator - Ukrainian Library Association

International Projects: CALIMERA (Cultural Applications: Local Institutions Mediating Electronic Resource Access) - Member of the CALIMERA Partner Network from Ukraine is Regional Universal Research Library 'D.I.Chizhevsky' from Kirovohrad.

International Projects: of Museum.org.ua – project of the Ukrainian Museums Center for giving on-line access to the historical and cultural heritage Ukraine. Odessa Virtual Museum of Numismatics with the on-line exhibitions of coins.

International Projects: EVA (ElectronicImaging and the Visual Arts) International Conferences

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